All this talk of not getting raises/advancements because you don't network or build social relationships with co-workers outside of work is hogwash. I've seen plenty of quiet, keep-to-themselves employees work their way up the ladder. If your management team doesn't advance you to a position you deserve because you didn't attend a social event, then it's probably a crappy company you work for. Maybe it's just the company I work for, but at the end of the day every raise and promotion I ever recieved was based on how I did my job. Not how I interacted outside of it. I would suggest that the only type of job where not attending social events and being the ''quiet guy'' might hurt you is at a sales job.
I don't see anything wrong with Pho Ga not attending the golf tournament. It's his personal time/choice if he wants to do so. I'm not a quiet guy at work by any means, but if I don't feel like going to a social event then I won't. And not once has it ever reflected negatively on my work.
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