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With my current employer this is foosball. At previous employers me and my team would sometimes do a few rounds in a team pve videogame at lunch, without anyon
by MrDresden 5y ago
With my current employer this is foosball.
At previous employers me and my team would sometimes do a few rounds in a team pve videogame at lunch, without anyone ever having an issue.
These things, if done in moderation, builds good team cohesion and spirit.
- toyg 5y agoShit, man, foosball ain't no joke, I can't talk while doing that! We used to have a table at Oracle, inherited from the SUN acquisition. Managers never used it, maybe because they were mostly women. We had some furious tournaments though, where I discovered that French people play it with balls made of cork - for a slower and more technical game.
- MrDresden 5y agoAh yeah, I probably should have mentioned that almost the entirety of the conversations would happend while waiting to be next in line for a game, or post match. There is little to no coherent speech that happens during those intense 5-8 minutes
- sithlord 5y agowowzers, they let you....do whatever you wanted at LUNCH? how generous...
- MrDresden 5y agoI really didn't think anyone would have difficulty understanding what was meant here... Ofcourse the lunch break was ours to do with as we pleased. That wasn't the point. Rather the point was that no one ever raised any issue with a group of the professional developers playing video games inside the office. And sometimes for longer times than just lunch. That does speak to the type of people who were managers there. They realized that this was a close group of friends who were honing social and coordination skills that would feed back positively into the team's work. I advice leaving the snarky tone at the door next time. It can usually only backfire on you.