Work social on a weekend?

[Purplelemon7]

Have you ever had a work social on a Saturday morning after a work party on a Friday night?

Not sure what you mean. Has your significant other told you they went to a work function and had to stay over?
Or are you asking if people have been expected to take part in work events on Saturday morning?

No, sounds a bit much?

Yes, but not for ages.

sometimes whole weekend things were organised by the company. Sometimes just a few people from a team would organise one

No, and I wouldn't go if there was.

My weekends are my own.

No!l I presume it’s your DP/DH who hasn’t come home!

No. He's lying to you. Work haven't put on another Saturday morning event after a Friday night work party.

Yep my OH had a work party last night and there’s a brunch planned for today. The overnight stay was in the diary but I didn’t pay attention to it until last night. He has lied to me in the past (but I thought that was behind us now). This seems strange to me as I’ve never had a Saturday gathering with colleagues unless we have all travelled together away from home.

Not unless we are away at a conference or similar, but it would be considered work (and I would have been moaning about for months so dh would know )

I have never stayed in a hotel overnight for a work social either, what was the occasion.

It was a summer party for another city’s office that’s a couple of hours away from us. He works with them a fair bit. He’s the only one who isn’t ‘local’ that went from what he’s told me.

I've definitely had work socials on a weekend before (although they are definitely optional). Breakfast/brunch after an evening away wouldn't be that unusual although it would likely only appeal to a certain demographic. It would have been fine in the early stages of my career (and happened a few times).

My old work always used to have Christmas parties during the week so we had to attend work the next day but no, not a work social. And not on the weekend!

@mynameiscalypso by after an evening “away” do you mean somewhere away from home?

Yes, I've been to plenty of work socials in my time that involved an overnight stay away from home. Normally to prevent people driving after a drink, it's often seen as more responsible to do that.

I've been to a few Friday in to Saturday events. Conference, training, team development etc followed by dinner with colleagues, overnight stay then breakfast/brunch and a short training session or meeting on the Saturday morning. Usually involves entire offices or people from various offices gathering in one location.

Yeah. I get that our team had a trip abroad which involved a party followed by an overnight stay and brunch the next day before everyone took flights back. What I find strange about this is that it’s a party for people who are local to this city which he’s joining - so no one else is staying overnight as they all have homes nearby and they are meeting again the next day on a weekend.

I could understand a work thing on a Friday and then the people staying over arranging to meet up for breakfast Saturday, yes.

Yeah that seems more plausible but I’ve been told that this is organised by the people who live locally and he’s the only one staying over

Maybe they all like each other? If last night was a big night, doesn't seem that unusual.

How local is local though? My DH works a 45 minute commute away from the office, he'd stay over rather than an expensive taxi, especially if the company were paying.

Not sure, but he’s always complaining about how stingy this company is with expenses and entertainment compared to his last one. They wanted a team offsite for 15 team members which involved an overnight stay which was turned down etc.

of course it’s possible there’s nothing to it, but it’s doesn’t feel right to me (maybe because of lies from the past).

A "summer" party for another city office and he's the only one not local. Well it's not summer for a start.

Sounds like a crock of shit to me, sorry OP.

When you say "lies from the past" do you mean he has cheated on you in some way?

Yes that's true. If we have a big party in the London office then a fair few people would stay over in a premier inn rather than go home, and that's probably even more true in places where people are more likely to commute by car. So even though they're "local" they'd all be together on the Saturday morning.

Yes true it isn’t summer.

Yes, there was cheating but he put it down to being young and immature (we were 20 then and in our mid 30s now). I think I’m over it day to day but then something like this happens every few years which throws me a bit and I don’t know if I’m being paranoid or if there’s something there.