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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I guess you work with a bunch of over competitive dinks. I've never seen anyone seriously embarrassed golfing at the drunken company tourneys. Usually the only people who get embarrassed are the ones who get ####faced and roll the golf carts.
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Perhaps I'm not making myself clear or you're not understanding my point. Or maybe you're just completely oblivious to the embarrassment some of your non-golfing coworkers feel because they're good at hiding how they really feel by playfully "laughing" it off.
Not enjoying company golf tournaments has nothing to do with competitiveness or working with douchbags. If someone is not good at a skill, and then they're forced to do that skill in front of their coworkers, that's not a pleasant situation. It doesn't matter that it's "just for fun" and isn't a reflection on one's job performance. Again, think of my karaoke example. Imagine how some of your coworkers would feel if they were forced to sing in front of their professional colleagues. Nobody at a karaoke night is expecting a virtuoso performance from a classically-trained vocalist, but some people still find it terribly embarrassing (and rightfully so!) to sing terribly off-key in front of people whose respect is important to them. That's exactly how non-golfers feel about company golf tournaments.