[pwinnski]

I've had friends who described the culture at their companies, and it sounded like everybody worked through an alcoholic haze. Somehow I've never end up at companies like that.

Although at one company there were occasional after-hours jaunts to a bar, they weren't attended by management, and nobody kept track of who attended and who abstained.

When I gave up drinking for a few years during my divorce, I was definitely in the minority of non-drinkers, but I never seemed to have any trouble. Then again, I didn't make a big deal of it by doing things like refusing a raffle prize. I wasn't trying to make a moral stand, I just didn't think it was a good idea for me to be drinking at the time.

Anyway, in my experience, OP is making a mountain out of a molehill, but I've heard from some friends whose work experience is different from mine that OP might just have had a run of bad luck.