Our team lead invited everyone to happy hour again tonight and I said I had plans, which… I didn’t, really.
This is the third time this month I’ve skipped something work related. It’s not that I don’t like these people, I’m just quietly applying to other jobs right now and it feels off being all chatty over drinks when I might be gone in a couple months, I guess.
Also by 5pm my brain is just done and I’d rather go home and mess around on the keyboard for 20 min than make small talk over $8 beers.
Is it bad to start pulling back right before I might leave anyway, or is that just how it goes? How do you all stay friendly with coworkers without actually hanging out with them much?