Urghh the joys of socialising with work colleagues when staying away. We are all managers and have a quarterly meeting which is at our head office site a few hours away. So we always travel the day before and stay overnight. We have dinner at the hotel and usually some drinks after.
There is usually 3 female managers and 5 males. One of us is on mat leave with their cover a man so this week saw 2 women and 6 men.
The mat cover is a bit of a cocky sod and was getting louder with every drink. He asked another manager about a woman who used to be on his team, and there was always some guesswork if they were close out of work. The manager has always denied it and I have no reason not to believe him (nor do I really care!)
Anyway to get to the point. Conversation went like this:
Mat cover - I’ve always thought you went there with her. Did you smash it?
Manager - laughs. No.
Mat cover - that’s a stupid question. You definitely smashed it. You could have gone round there any night and found (managers surname) hanging out the back of it.
I made my excuses and went to bed at this point. My female colleague present did the same, being equally disgusted.
AIBU to make my excuses next time I have to stay away with these colleagues? And have dinner/drinks without them