• Melkath@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I mean, you get your opinion, but I just disagree.

    Remote means Remote.

    Being forced to stand in a field and eat hot dogs with my coworkers doesn’t accomplish anything but subject me to learning things I shouldn’t need to know about my coworkers and being forced to share things I don’t want to share with my coworkers.

    I have never once attended a “team building” event and liked my coworkers more after.

    In fact, the opposite happens. I learn who is religious. I learn who is racist. I learn who denies climate change. I learn who is a horrible parent bit thinks they are the best parent.

    I’m not friends with my coworkers. I cowork with them, and as a data analyst/process Automator, I can do that through zoom.

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      I have never once attended a “team building” event and liked my coworkers more after.

      That sounds like a you problem. I’ve had a great time at all of them.

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        Why do you automatically assume it’s a problem with them and not a shit-tier HR team whose idea of teambuilding is a fucking pizza party for 40 year old software engineers?

        Do you like shit-tier pizza parties? Are you just a generally easy to please person? Do you expect no more than the bare fucking minimum from life?

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          Because the people responding, myself included, don’t get sent to a pizza party for a team building. Probably way higher end, and they are reflecting on that

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          I don’t care who you are, free pizza is a gift I will accept any day. It will beat anything else I would be bringing in for lunch.

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        1 year ago

        I mean sure.

        So are you saying you are a proponent of causing a problem for me? Because you have a great time, you endorse forcing me to go against my will?

        I guess I’m not saying “don’t do team building”, I’m saying “don’t force people who don’t want to go to go.”

        If I am doing my job, and I am remote, why are you compelled to fuck around with me and make me uncomfortable for 10% of my work obligation?

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        1 year ago

        Probably nothing they like.

        But when an out of touch CEO isn’t trying to force us to be “a family”, they love my work, and that’s all I care about at WORK.