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> Team social events shouldn’t require physical prowess or alcoholic excess—so forget paintball and bar crawls. As a 57 year-old backend engineer I would like

> Team social events shouldn’t require physical prowess or alcoholic excess—so forget paintball and bar crawls. As a 57 year-old backend engineer I would like to keep the bar crawls, thanks.

commandlinefan 8y ago
If anything, I have 24 years of experience to pass on to the younger generation.
- Latteland 8y ago
  Of drinking. I am in the same boat.
gaoshan 8y ago
49 frontend dev here and the occasional happy hour is one of the things I look forward to most.
tedmiston 8y ago
I love paintball. You can definitely play without physical prowess — plenty of people sit in the back of speedball fields to "spray or pray" or call out upstream opponent positions to their team. Likewise with the woodsball setting even more so. It's much less physically demanding than one might think... you can be successful at recreation level without running. I've never been athletic but I was stable able to play local tournament-level paintball. I'd love to have it as a company outing.
- YoloGenZ 8y ago
  It's "spray and pray" old man, not "spray or pray" lmao.
meddlepal 8y ago
Throughout my career I've always loved drinking with the older (45-50+) engineers. Lots of great war stories and unfiltered bits of context and history around why things are the way they are. I'm going to be that old engineer sooner rather than later. So yea, I agree... let's keep that going.
teddyh 8y ago
None for me, please: https://web.archive.org/web/20130808111450/http://ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130808111450/http://ryanfunduk...
- icebraining 8y ago
  That culture definitely has a problem, but it's unrelated to having some social events, among many others and separate from the workplace or conference area, where drinking is involved. Even if they're bar crawls.
- jfe1234 8y ago
  What an irritating blog post. I don't disagree with the overall point (have experienced it myself, for sure, at times). "instead walked around DC, sober, talking and enjoying the great weather with my beautiful wife" why does it have to be pointed out that his wife is "beautiful"? Seems a little hypocritical to me. And some of the stuff he picks on people having done (like posting a Twitter msg with a picture pf a bunch of empty beer bottles) is really scraping the barrel. Shame really - started off quite well.
Bahamut 8y ago
And as a 34 year old fullstack engineer, I’ll pass. Not that I don’t mind drinking, but it’s a net negative to me in general. I’ll drink once every few months with coworkers and that’s it.
Angostura 8y ago
As a 53 year old, I'd quite enjoy paintballing please.

> Team social events shouldn’t require physical prowess or alcoholic excess—so forget paintball and bar crawls. As a 57 year-old backend engineer I would like to keep the bar crawls, thanks.

commandlinefan 8y ago

If anything, I have 24 years of experience to pass on to the younger generation.

Latteland 8y ago
Of drinking. I am in the same boat.

gaoshan 8y ago

49 frontend dev here and the occasional happy hour is one of the things I look forward to most.

tedmiston 8y ago

I love paintball. You can definitely play without physical prowess — plenty of people sit in the back of speedball fields to "spray or pray" or call out upstream opponent positions to their team. Likewise with the woodsball setting even more so. It's much less physically demanding than one might think... you can be successful at recreation level without running. I've never been athletic but I was stable able to play local tournament-level paintball. I'd love to have it as a company outing.

YoloGenZ 8y ago
It's "spray and pray" old man, not "spray or pray" lmao.

meddlepal 8y ago

Throughout my career I've always loved drinking with the older (45-50+) engineers. Lots of great war stories and unfiltered bits of context and history around why things are the way they are. I'm going to be that old engineer sooner rather than later. So yea, I agree... let's keep that going.

teddyh 8y ago

None for me, please: https://web.archive.org/web/20130808111450/http://ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130808111450/http://ryanfunduk...

icebraining 8y ago
That culture definitely has a problem, but it's unrelated to having some social events, among many others and separate from the workplace or conference area, where drinking is involved. Even if they're bar crawls.
jfe1234 8y ago
What an irritating blog post. I don't disagree with the overall point (have experienced it myself, for sure, at times). "instead walked around DC, sober, talking and enjoying the great weather with my beautiful wife" why does it have to be pointed out that his wife is "beautiful"? Seems a little hypocritical to me. And some of the stuff he picks on people having done (like posting a Twitter msg with a picture pf a bunch of empty beer bottles) is really scraping the barrel. Shame really - started off quite well.

Bahamut 8y ago

And as a 34 year old fullstack engineer, I’ll pass. Not that I don’t mind drinking, but it’s a net negative to me in general. I’ll drink once every few months with coworkers and that’s it.

Angostura 8y ago

As a 53 year old, I'd quite enjoy paintballing please.