The Laughing MuseJul 3, 2023
No, recruiters.

I do not want to be part of a "challenging" team.

I'm in my mid-50s. I want to be part of a "mature" team, a "powerful" team with a large and well-managed "throughput", a "structured" team that knows how to use processes to quickly and accurately handle the Same Stuff Happens Every Week so that when someone else comes screaming in with their ass on fire babbling about something someone else broke and We Need To Document This Thing NOW NOW NOW, one or two of us can calmly turn from our current tasks, neatly and quickly handle La Emergencia, and calm the panicked person's heartrate without raising our own.

I'm old. Fuck "ambition". I just want a good paycheck and no dumbass "this REALLY could have been avoided" hasslepanic.
Show threadAndroo DownieJul 4, 2023
@thelaughingmuse And no, I don’t want to be part of a “family”. I’ve already got one of those and, by the way, I like spending time with them. So, you can keep the “we work hard, and play hard” teams too.
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@adownie @thelaughingmuse "work hard, play hard" is great when it's done right. I was part of a company that prided itself in its culture, of which the above was a part, and it was hands down the best workplace I ever had.

But done wrong, it results in half the staff not being able to do the "play hard" part because they're too busy working hard. And that can be very harmful for team cohesion and workplace culture.

Jul 4, 2023 at 9:17pmIceCubesApp
Show threadAndroo DownieJul 4, 2023
@rainynight65 @thelaughingmuse yeah, like everything else, there are exceptions where it can work. For the most part, however, it usually means someone is getting screwed over.
Show threadThe Laughing MuseJul 8, 2023
@adownie @rainynight65 I remember a place where I worked. It had Oh-Beer-Thirty every Friday, regular parties, and conference rooms named after aliens in a sci-fi franchise.

That place just about put me into the hospital.
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@thelaughingmuse @adownie I just left a place quite similar to that. Lots of parties, free drinks and snacks, staff drinks and morning teas, but the work was hyper stressful thanks to chronic understaffing, miserable processes and crap planning.