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For everyone that complains about interacting with colleagues. I feel that this can be addressed by having managers do periodic offsite meet-ups. However there

For everyone that complains about interacting with colleagues. I feel that this can be addressed by having managers do periodic offsite meet-ups. However there are those people that comes to the office to talk all day, and honestly, for everyone else's productivity, it's better they work from home.

npsimons 6y ago
My boss on a project roped me into hobby chat as I was taking a five minute break to stretch my legs. He turned it into 40 (!) minutes of non-work chit chat. I don't want to be unfriendly, but I'm at work to get shit done because I'm getting paid. If someone wants to talk hobbies, we can do that another time.
- ryanmercer 6y ago
  >My boss on a project roped me into hobby chat as I was taking a five minute break to stretch my legs. He turned it into 40 (!) minutes of non-work chit chat. I've had this happen in the past with managers doing reviews. While in these cases I've usually enjoyed the conversation and been at least as guilty as them as derailing the focus, it's still time where I could be doing work instead of discussing common interests/experiences with them. It's not like we're ever going to hang out outside of work so us discussing local shows we both were at two decades ago, or our morel hunting success this year, or what variety of potatoes we're planting, is just taking us both away from work (sure, sometime that is needed just to get in a different headspace, but the shareholders probably don't care about that).