[ClapperHeid]

  >You're willing to waste my time today; you'll probably be willing to waste it tomorrow, too. So I won't be back.

Cut to the next day. Everyone at HN having a massive party with loads of free food, booze and drugs. Someone turns to their neighbour and says "You'd have thought AnimalMuppet would have turned up for this!"

[AnimalMuppet]

That could happen. And free food is nice, though I'm not really into booze and drugs.

But 9999 times out of 10000, that doesn't happen. Instead, what happens is some promotion for something that I don't care about. And the opportunity cost of paying attention those 9999 times outweighs the free food I get the one time there's actually something there.

[ClapperHeid]

I feel your pain. I've been to the same kind of corporate drudge-fests. But sometimes the free food includes chessecake.... which almost makes up for the ennui.