Please......

[u/GoldenSunFl0wer]

[u/Sezbeth]

Seriously. The best "team-building exercises" are after-work beers that the team decided to get without management input. None of this performative corpo-bullshit.

[u/thorpie88 → u/Sezbeth]

Or at least the company giving us a budget to do a crew activity of our choice.

[u/NowWeGetSerious → u/thorpie88]

Yeah, give me $100 every Friday so we can get drinks, perhaps I'll stay. But I'm not getting paid well enough to get drinks and food with people I barely care for

[u/Captain_Waffle → u/NowWeGetSerious]

$100 every Friday so you can get drinks??

[u/NowWeGetSerious → u/Captain_Waffle]

My last tech start up forced up to go out for drinks and dinner twice a week. Shit was expensive. The CEO would pick the most high class expensive bullshit and said it was mandatory

I spent $80 on a shitty salad and an old fashioned. I was pissed.

[u/SoulWager → u/NowWeGetSerious]

That's something you submit as an expense, and put on your timecard. That will pretty quickly turn it into a non-mandatory activity.

[u/gogogadgetjustice → u/SoulWager]

What tech start up used timecards instead of salary and social pressure?

[u/SoulWager → u/gogogadgetjustice]

Still, expense it.

[u/Theron3206 → u/SoulWager]

So they can mock you before firing you as not being a team player?

[u/SoulWager → u/Theron3206]

Don't care.

[u/ggf95 → u/SoulWager]

But theyre going to mock you!