I just say ‘sorry, it’s been a long day, I’m socially exhausted, see y’all tomorrow morning.’ And it 100% shows on my face.
But that works because it’s an engineering team and introversion is fine and understood. We’ve definitely had feedback from some engineers that a full 8 hours of group work, and then dinner, and some social event after that is too much. Managers have learned since to just cut some meetings and make the social events part of the normal work hours.
This probably doesn’t work as well for the departments full of people who like to talk a lot.
I just say ‘sorry, it’s been a long day, I’m socially exhausted, see y’all tomorrow morning.’ And it 100% shows on my face.
But that works because it’s an engineering team and introversion is fine and understood. We’ve definitely had feedback from some engineers that a full 8 hours of group work, and then dinner, and some social event after that is too much. Managers have learned since to just cut some meetings and make the social events part of the normal work hours.
This probably doesn’t work as well for the departments full of people who like to talk a lot.