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Breathe Deep and Relax into your [chat]
spool32
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It's a stressful time for us all.
Breathe in through your nose
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let the peace of [chat] suffuse your spirit
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Breathe out through your mouth.
Exhale your tension. Relax your shoulders. Settle into your breathing.
Relax.
We will make it through.
Breathe in through your nose
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let the peace of [chat] suffuse your spirit
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Breathe out through your mouth.
Exhale your tension. Relax your shoulders. Settle into your breathing.
Relax.
We will make it through.
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I suppose I don't really have a theme for one. But I'd like to get the chance to flail around and put one together!
(inhales)
Buttsssssss.....
(inhales)
Burgssssssss.....
That seems entirely too reasonably priced for a small castle.
I want it.
pleasepaypreacher.net
And then the back up will steal it from you.
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I'm as far from the US as I can reasonably be without going off grid while also still living in Canada.
So the radiation from the nuke that takes out Seattle will be pretty minor by the time it gets here.
This year will make me 0/5
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what has breathing ever done for me
fucking nothing says i
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Maybe I need to more actively spam the last few chat pages
Although I'm also sort of intimidated by the prospect of making an OP. I think it's probably my duty to make the new G&T LoL thread once the old one dies, since I'm among the few people still enthused about posting there, but it's weirdly scary so I haven't done so the few times there has been the opportunity.
QED hth nbd eod the-other-eod
Just that, maybe there's tons of reasons she's not forthcoming with it.
It's 100% legit okay not to want to hang out.
Just hoping spool doesn't fuck over someone who might be the best fit because they don't like to be part of the "guys club".
I vote for coughing up blood
The consulting business is similar.
Free tickets to sporting events, booze, restaurants etc.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Of course, it may not matter because even if the us economy has a little ripple, it may as well be a tidal wave for Canada.......
But not when i'm on my phone
If you're saying going is good because it helps with teambuilding and getting different parts of the organization to chat, that's still work.
What if I show up and drink alone in the corner for a half hour and then go home, does that count? The point is to be social with others and build the team. That's definitely work. It's fine to have these events but if you're passing me over for a promotion despite being awesome at my job, that sucks! Especially if the reasoning is that we do these team building events, so because you don't go to them I can't hire you because you wouldn't be able to plan them. Except if the job requires that it should be paid or done during work time.
Well we want this person to get along with the team! Okay, that's what interviews are for. And team building exercises during work. I hate when people give me the side eye for not going to "optional" things because I was told they were optional
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you just have to refresh the page
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
down with the wage system.
but it was during work hours and they weren't going to pay us
so everyone stayed at work while the salaried fucks went off to play
jokes on them, none of us did any work that day
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
TLDR:
1) I do them at a limited amount
2) I would not consider not going a negative check if they match the needs of the promotion through actions in the workplace.
Also I think this will be 0/3 for work Holiday parties. Would cost me $75 for Mazzxx to come. And its near the airport not near me. And just a total pain in all ways to get to.
I understand. And as and extrovert I have to admit I have some social biases.
At the same time, I do think that if management is trying to cultivate a culture and a particular worker refuses to even remotely engage - like just never does - I guess I can understand why that may factor into future decisions about that worker.
I'm not sure this is right or fair. I'm just being honest about how I currently think about it. It's kind of like if you have a group of friends abs one friend always flakes out, eventually you stop inviting that friend out. Completely different social dynamic and I understand and even agree that it may not be fair to put that expectation on a work colleague or subordinate but...we're all human. I'm no manager but I guess I would rather staff my office with people who were socially cohesive than otherwise. If it were an "arbitrary" decision between promoting one of two people with similar skill sets and work ethics, and never showed up for anything social, my biases would probably push me toward the more social one, in all honesty.
I dunno, it's complex and I understand why this thought process might frustrate some people.
I think it's silly to think of passing someone who never comes to them up for promotion as judging them as a worse employee
All other things being equal, if you were running the show would you not go sooner to the employees who more readily come along to whatever events are being hosted?
At the end of the day you're showing a little more favour to those who show a little more favour your way
The idea of even semi-implied mandatory after work social events would probably be enough to get me to not want to work some place. I can build team work through working with someone, I don't need to go-kart or go-drinking to do it. And after spending 8+ hours a workday with them I'd much rather spend time with my wife and family and dog or even occasionally friends. If that's a subtext at my work that I'm missing, it doesn't seem to be a strong consideration since I have to regularly reiterate no interest in management roles and the people who do the most of those types of thing (ultimate league, softball league, flag football, art classes, golf tournament etc) tend to be very much not on a fast track.
Company volunteering where you do something for charity or company events is another story, but that's a networking thing.
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It is work. If me being required to be in an office while shitposting instead of on my couch is work, then having to be in a restaurant or bar instead of on my couch is work. Anything that requires me to be physically or mentally attendant to anything other than what I would otherwise choose? Work.
Being on-call, even if the phone never rings? Work.
"It's not work, it's just a thing you have to go do with your coworkers that you could opt out of with some degree of career consequences" dogg that is work!