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Companies are made by extroverts, for extroverts, and as extroverts they have no consideration or realization that anyone might have any feelings different from them.
As an extravert, I’d tell them to get the fuck out of my private life. If ignored, I would sabotage the event by sharing something like me puking at a party, or playing Stardew Valley on a toilet.
That’s fair; I’m generalizing and certainly not all Extro’s will fit into that box. Lots of corpo mgmt folks certainly do though.
“I’m a private person and don’t feel comfortable sharing. Thanks for the invite, but I’ll be turning this meeting down. Feel free to reach out if you have any work related discussions in which my opinion would be valuable. I have lots of ideas for improvement for cross-department collaboration that I would be willing share.”
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This is my cat while sleeping. This is my cat while awake. I travelled to work this morning and would like to travel back home now, because that would allow me to escape this stupid fucking situation.
“That’s not part of my work-related responsibilities as defined by my contract.”
lol contract, what do you think this is, civilization?
First picture is a picture of this request. Second picture is a picture of this request.
A place you have traveled to is work. And it sucks.
A place you want to travel to it’s home, and that’s nonya business.
That’s horrific. Can you download a picture of something boring to everyone but you could talk about at length? Depending on who of my coworkers did this, I could talk at length about Lego, trains, plaster repair, my dog and the things she eats (sometimes twice!)
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I would take a screenshot of the invite and deliver a ten minute lecture on how this meeting is keeping me from actually doing my job.
Second picture is a screenshot of my team’s backlog.
Locations don’t matter; they’ll throw me out of the meeting at the second picture at the latest.
Trains and plaster repair I likely would want to listen to
so please make every effort to attend
Is this corp speech for “obligatory”?
I’m reading it as, “You don’t technically have to attend, but we’ll remember who wasn’t there when it’s time for performance reviews.”
Yikes, that workplace sucks.
That’s actually Corp speak for it’s not completely obligatory. I have meetings where it’s if you can attend you need to be in it. And then I have meetings where it doesn’t matter what you are doing you have to be in that meeting barring an emergency.
This isn’t explicitly mandatory, so just don’t attend. You’re not being paid to socialize, after all.
1st picture: My Junk
2nd picture: My Asshole
Where have I gone? Downtown on yo momma.
Where do I want to go? Yo mommas backdoor.
HR hates this one weird trick!
I think this violates the Geneva convention
Make shit up. No joke. Only way to survive this shit is to have fun with it and make up the most ludicrous bullshit. Or dont attend if its not required. Tell your coworkers the same. Or say you are busy as you have to actually work.
for the above nonsense, it’s really a just askGPT situation.
I hate these forced ice breaker topics. Nothing makes me more nervous and sweaty. It doesn’t work either.
The cult around constantly being touring, or planning your next trip, that I’ve seen at every company where people earn ok money is such a bother.
I feel for people who have friends in other countries, but all this flying around ugh, and then talking about it ugh ugh
Yeah I have a question: what the fuck?
Sounds like a good time to have a meeting with an external partner that you can’t skip or reschedule.
And by meeting, I mean a legit looking calendar event that will fool a cursory investigation.
This works best if you have an office with a door you can shut.
Or. Hell. Sounds like a good time to schedule a conflicting dental or doctor appointment.
