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As an aside, it's a wonder to read casual accounts of office work where teams will play with toys rather than be allowed to go home to their families or other i

As an aside, it's a wonder to read casual accounts of office work where teams will play with toys rather than be allowed to go home to their families or other interests

seized 4y ago
Not every office is 100% full of people with kids and a relationship.
georgeecollins 4y ago
I have a family and a great work life balance. Some of the fondest memories I have of team building at work is playing video games or doing activities like paint ball or volley ball. So go ahead and judge.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  No judgment on you and I’m glad to hear it I was commenting on the owners, who restrict freedoms unnecessarily and with consequence even if many people are able to make a happy way through it
  - georgeecollins 4y ago
    OK I can agree with that.
shortstuffsushi 4y ago
> rather than be allowed This seems like a particularly uncharitable interpretation from the context of the post.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  it’s the industry standard to expect defined working hours presence regardless of the work at hand. whatever workers want to do in the lulls or otherwise, that’s great for them. I was commenting on their owners
nonbirithm 4y ago
I think it's taken for granted that finding even three other people to play couch co-op is very difficult, much less enough people for a 30-person LAN match. Work seems to be a reasonable place to meet people who want to partake in extracurriculars.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  Yeah being forced by owners to pass time together would enable that
fluoridation 4y ago
Ooh, can I play? "It's a shame you dislike your coworkers so much that you'd like to spend as little time with them as possible."
- dvt 4y ago
  Be careful not to fall for the "we're a family here" corporate tropes and then have an existential crisis once you get fired or laid off. Work is work. Your customers are not your friends and your coworkers are not your family.
  - tfsh 4y ago
    Coworkers might not be your family, but it doesn't mean you can't be friends. Some of the people I'm closest to I met at work, however to ensure our interactions aren't constrained to the workplace, we've made deliberate attempts to meet up outside of the office.
    - wahnfrieden 4y ago
      Worker friendship and solidarity is fantastic and should be encouraged. I was commenting on their owners
  - fluoridation 4y ago
    The friend I'm closest with I met at a previous job and we continued talking and seeing each other after I quit that job. Your coworkers are not your family, but they can be your friends if you let them, and that relationship doesn't have to end when the professional aspect of the relationship ends.
bee_rider 4y ago
We don't know anything about their business -- for all we know they could be required in the office to provide availability, but with large downtimes in actual work.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  that’s the line given for every instance of it at scale

As an aside, it's a wonder to read casual accounts of office work where teams will play with toys rather than be allowed to go home to their families or other interests

seized 4y ago

Not every office is 100% full of people with kids and a relationship.

georgeecollins 4y ago

I have a family and a great work life balance. Some of the fondest memories I have of team building at work is playing video games or doing activities like paint ball or volley ball. So go ahead and judge.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
No judgment on you and I’m glad to hear it I was commenting on the owners, who restrict freedoms unnecessarily and with consequence even if many people are able to make a happy way through it
- georgeecollins 4y ago
  OK I can agree with that.

shortstuffsushi 4y ago

> rather than be allowed This seems like a particularly uncharitable interpretation from the context of the post.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
it’s the industry standard to expect defined working hours presence regardless of the work at hand. whatever workers want to do in the lulls or otherwise, that’s great for them. I was commenting on their owners

nonbirithm 4y ago

I think it's taken for granted that finding even three other people to play couch co-op is very difficult, much less enough people for a 30-person LAN match. Work seems to be a reasonable place to meet people who want to partake in extracurriculars.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
Yeah being forced by owners to pass time together would enable that

fluoridation 4y ago

Ooh, can I play? "It's a shame you dislike your coworkers so much that you'd like to spend as little time with them as possible."

dvt 4y ago
Be careful not to fall for the "we're a family here" corporate tropes and then have an existential crisis once you get fired or laid off. Work is work. Your customers are not your friends and your coworkers are not your family.
- tfsh 4y ago
  Coworkers might not be your family, but it doesn't mean you can't be friends. Some of the people I'm closest to I met at work, however to ensure our interactions aren't constrained to the workplace, we've made deliberate attempts to meet up outside of the office.
  - wahnfrieden 4y ago
    Worker friendship and solidarity is fantastic and should be encouraged. I was commenting on their owners
- fluoridation 4y ago
  The friend I'm closest with I met at a previous job and we continued talking and seeing each other after I quit that job. Your coworkers are not your family, but they can be your friends if you let them, and that relationship doesn't have to end when the professional aspect of the relationship ends.

bee_rider 4y ago

We don't know anything about their business -- for all we know they could be required in the office to provide availability, but with large downtimes in actual work.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
that’s the line given for every instance of it at scale