As a #thirdculture #POC kid on an all-white team with no interest in sports, I was basically excluded from the solid 20+min watercooler opening chat on Teams re: Canada's Olympic Men's Hockey loss & the NHL players on the national teams.
It's times like those a) I'm glad I don't overshare my personal life (bc I don't relate to any of them) & b) I want to just shut off my camera & surf/scroll non-work stuff until it's over & back to work meeting part. I end up just continuing work on my other screens while they chat, not engaging.
Any of you in similar boats have suggestions on how to dip out until they get on track? Next time I should just "brb"" in the chat, but then I would think that would make them idle chat more until I return.
#racializedproblems #ThirdCultureKid #notintosports