[HN Gopher] Work events, Zoom Lunches and other forced social ac...
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       Work events, Zoom Lunches and other forced social activities are
       driving me nuts
        
       The company I work for keeps organizing social events and expects
       everyone to be present. I have no interest in having lunch with a
       random set of co-workers or play random games on Zoom. I like to
       get my work done and collaborate with my team members, I don't want
       these random interruptions.  This happened as well before COVID
       with quarterly events where we would do the most random stuff: play
       music, cook, scavenge hunt... Something completely irrelevant to
       what we do on a daily basis.  Do you see this at your company as
       well? How do you deal with it? I understand that we can be
       supportive of each other, but to me it almost comes across like
       people have given up on their personal lives and now need to
       somehow compensate for it at work.  I love the work that I get to
       do on a daily basis, but these work events drive me nuts.
        
       Author : HappyHillbilly
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-03-19 22:03 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
       | odshoifsdhfs wrote:
       | I have been there before.
       | 
       | 1) talk with your manager/higher up. Believe it or not, sometimes
       | they understand your point of view. I had a manager admit they
       | were being quite unsensitive to some of my personal hangs during
       | these things
       | 
       | 2) if 1 doesn't pan out, depending on how you feel about the
       | company, either quit, or sabotage as much as possible to show how
       | stupid the mandatory activities are. Want to play music? just
       | play some hardcore, cursing music, jesus hating, muslim degrating
       | metal (or whatever) and say it is your jam. Cooking? Just keep
       | saying everything needs more garlic and say any other recipe
       | needs more garlic. GARLIC!!!!! didn't use a full clove? MORE
       | GARLIC!!!!! Fuck... put 3 buds of garlic in everything, including
       | herbal tea. GAAAAARLIC!!
       | 
       | 3) Just mute everyone, turn video off and do your thing. That is
       | what I do for most of my 'social meetings' anyway. I go, cook my
       | dinner, walk my dog, and when everyone is saying goodbye, I just
       | throw a 'wave' emoji or something
        
       | fishmaster wrote:
       | Is it during work time? Great. No? Aight, imma head out.
        
       | chovybizzass wrote:
       | started a new job. had one of these 'zoom happy hours' the other
       | day. as soon as I found out we were playing a game my internet
       | started crapping out on me...and I unfortunately couldn't
       | partake. ;)
        
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