There was a budget for my companies holiday party this year. The result was a mandatory attendance at a pool hall and a pool tournament. There is nothing about pool, competition, forced workplace socialization that has any appeal to me.

I’m sure that there are people who like playing pool. I expect there is a huge gender bias. I also suspect that the people who like it feel successful at it and did not start playing against their will.

I chalk some of it to my preceived place on the Extraversion-Introversion Spectrum (far far to the Intro)

I’d like to leave you with some reading: Caring for Your Introvert

And assure you that really, I’d like to be left alone.