I hate

I'm into gelling with my colleagues (no euph), I just don't want them to think that means we're friends.

Loads of people make friends at work. 10% of people met their partner at work (used to be 20%).

I just don't want them to think that means we're friends.

This.

Other humans (generally) are hell.

The new changes to Gmail. They've just made the chat worse

Sure but that doesn't mean that all my colleagues are friends, even the ones I get on with (in a professional sense).

Like me as I am, don't make me have mandatory fun.

You must be one of the last to still use Gmail chat (gchat? Ghchat? Shat?)

Work emails are Gmail so it's what we all use to talk between the team whilst working remotely. Everyone in the company is on it. It's decent but they've just made it shitter

Yup. I use Hangouts a lot personally and for work in the Gmail browser window. The no history option makes it much better for workplace chatting than Teams chat (which we are moving onto)

Because it makes work a nicer place to be and you spend loads of time there.

There are good ways to do this based entirely on the work relationship. Creating a healthy working environment is most of it. Making people feel obliged to share personal information is bullshit trying to hide the fact that the management aren't doing those good things. It shifts responsibility downwards and can be distressing for some.

I make genuine friendships at work and I choose my friends. I don't need some management consultant cunt with a Myers Briggs Ouija board forcing me to role-play.

forcing me to role-play

You might want to talk to to an employment lawyer about that.

Fingerboarding

You can’t hate that, surely.

On an induction course we were made to draw heraldic crests that described ourselves, the rugby player had to include a rugby ball etc.
I mentioned that it was the first exercise my Brother-in-law did when he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. I didn’t survive long there

I'm not sure if it's actually on the curriculum, but that's a Primary school favourite activity too.

I think it might be the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnbcZrHJSp/?utm_medium=copy_link

Just look at it

That’s rad. Dude.

Blocked

There are good ways to do this based entirely on the work relationship.

Every company I've worked for has just paid for regular piss ups and left us to work it out for ourselves.

There are diversity issues with that approach (both for people who don't come from drinking cultures and for people who come from no-holds-barred piss-up cultures*) but at least there's no role-play.

(* I may or may not be in one of those groups)

There are diversity issues with that approach

I'm all for active ways to build a healthy and inclusive working culture. One of my objections to the "make your staff share their personal lives" con is that it's the opposite of inclusive. Aside from shifting the buck onto them.

"I choose my own friends", which is what I said, doesn't mean I think company culture should be left to that. That way lies clubs for the boys and everybody else missing out. Company culture is about working relationships, not personal relationships.

My frame clearance!

When someone is asked an either or question and they say both.

Penguins or puffins? Oh I cant choose, both.

Just play the game ya fun sponge!

If you meant XOR why didn't you say that?

People who make inclusive or jokes

Well I googled it and I still don't understand it. I did a semester of logic at uni n' all.