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I believe I've made friends of some of my remote coworkers... That's also a thing.
by koide 6y ago
I believe I've made friends of some of my remote coworkers... That's also a thing.
- tharne 6y agoKudos to you, I and most people I know haven't cracked that particular nut in a meaningful way. It may be an unpopular opinion on this site, but I don't think the human mind is especially well-suited to remote work. We're social creatures by nature and our brains evolved to interact in the meatspace, rather than via a zoom call.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoAye, same. I'm friendly-ish with my coworkers, have played a couple of coworker-only rounds of Among Us, but honestly we're not especially tight and I'll probably never interact with them again once I leave. At least in an office there is the geographic similarity and discussions that can come out of that, e.g. weather, housing market, sports teams, etc. But half my staff is in Mexico City, India, or the UK. We're swamped with work -- this post is me procrastinating -- and a huge number of them are contractors, vendors, and customers, who we're explicitly told not to get too close to. And if I'm making friends online, there are far, far better forums for that, e.g. Discord, Reddit, etc.