How to Decline to Social Drinking

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How to Decline to Social Drinking

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Drinking parties and other socialization events will always be the part of your workplace life. Given that you and your colleagues spend most of your time inside that space that you call as the office, it's important that you also spend some time out with the same people and probably get to know more about them--and for adults, this almost always include a bottle of alcohol.

Call it anti-social, but there will always be people who rarely, if at all, drink alcohol. I consider myself included in this group. Though I don't hate alcohol as much as I did a year ago, I would still rather stay with juice or other kinds of drinks instead of drinking beer. I don't know why, but I was just raised that way. I also suspect that I could get easily drunk, considering that I get red all over after drinking a shot of Jose Cuervo tequila. I don't want to lose control of myself.

So how do you decline to take a drink if you are in one of those workplace socialization events? You don't want to lose out on socializing and hooking up with your officemates, but you don't want to drink either. So what to do?

The thing is I believe that these people you work with are mature enough to respect your decision not to drink. These people tend to invite you only if you haven't expressed your desire to decline. Saying no to a glass of alcohol is very difficult, but once you already do, your colleagues will most likely respect that. It's just a matter of standing up your ground and declaring that you have no intention to drink right from the very start.

If push comes to shove and they won't budge, then you can probably say some other extraneous things, like how you have an allergy from a drink, or how you are supposed to be in another place right after the event or the day after. My money goes to the former because that excuse can be used for a long while, unlike the latter wherein you'll get pretty obvious if you do it everytime.

So, would you still care not to drink? If there's really no problem, then why don't you try a glass, even for old time's sake?

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