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I wouldn't call it alcoholism, but I do think there's too much emphasis on alcohol in team building. Getting trashed with your team and making memories (or lack
by katzgrau 6y ago
I wouldn't call it alcoholism, but I do think there's too much emphasis on alcohol in team building. Getting trashed with your team and making memories (or lack thereof) is kind of a fast track to becoming tight. But there are healthier and better ways to do it.
This is 30+ year old me speaking, but mid-20s me would be out until the early hours of the morning with the rest of the team on a work night, and I loved it. But now that I manage a team, I pretty much never make alcohol the focus of any company event - not really healthy or something I want to be actively promoting to employees. I guess I'm a bit of a puritan now.
- sukilot 6y agoBeing a mature adult who is interested in reality isn't "Puritan".
- marsdepinski 6y agoTrue, that's a boring, humorless, twat. A Puritan also doesn't bone, dance or sing.
- drewbug 6y agohttps://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-puritans-really-loved-having-sex/ https://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-puritans-really-loved-havi...
- eckza 6y agoI feel this. As someone who has seen some real shit... I feel like that kind of intimacy in a professional environment could actually be detrimental. I don't want to see my boss wasted. Nor do I ever want to fall in love with the hot scrum master again.
- clwk 6y agoBravo.
- baby 6y agoBeing up all night actually is akin to drinking for your body, or so I’ve read. I’ve definitely felt the same effects from sleep deprivation.
- ralls_ebfe 6y agoI experienced something similar, when I stopped drinking alcohol for health reasons and still noticing mental impairment when staying at parties until morning.
- partyboat1586 6y agoUnless you drink a ton most of the hangover effect comes from sleep loss and dehydration.
- jmchuster 6y agoDo people actually gets trashed and wasted with their team though? Usually I find that there is a "work" portion where people head to the bar after work and have a few beers and get buzzed and talk about work. And then people leave and people break off into groups and the "friends" portion of the night starts, when you might actually get drunk with your group of friends from work. But there is no illusion that there is any connection to work at that point.