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.
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?
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
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.
That sounds like a you problem. I’ve had a great time at all of them.
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?
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
Or maybe a different industry? Or maybe… get this… HRs FUCKING SUCK.
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.
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?
I wonder what your coworkers discover about you…😜
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.