Boss makes a dollar, I make 5 cents
That's why I'm skipping the office events
I’ll do fun work events if they’re during work time. You’re telling me I don’t have to work and get to have fun? Sure!
We played laser tag once during a Friday instead of working. It was blast.
Oh, I work from home most of the time and for most "events" I would need to appear in person. A pizza party is not making me want to spend an hour extra in traffic
Bingo. If it's happening during work hours and I still get paid, sure. If I'm not getting paid or it's happening during my limited time away from work? I will move heaven and Earth to HAVE something to do.
Would love to see a company list their cons during the interview process…
I had one that kind of did. Looking back I think it was a clever way of seeing if I was a good fit based off my reaction.
It was the end of the interview and he asked if I had any questions, and I pulled the "turn it around on them" play and asked him what he enjoyed most about his job/working there. He was going to be my boss.
He said "every day I get to work on something new". With the magic of far more experience now, I understand just how much that's a blessing and a curse. That idea excited me at the time, and it was the attitude needed for the position.
Now I prefer to have that opportunity available, but I have to be able to deep dive into a smaller subset of things and ignore the churn sometimes to stay sane long term.
Working with something new every day in a tech support position just means something new is breaking every day, and there's not enough time to become well versed in much of it.
I kind of had one a few years before covid because they were butts in the seat with strict office hours. They asked up front if that was an option. A lot of things sucked with policies but it did have a decent work life balance. Walk out the door exactly at 5pm and never check email remotely.
