Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace?

• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like that’s a different thing. “We’re a family” is a forced perversion of actual meaningful relationships with co-workers.

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will concede there is a spectrum of professional familial attitudes.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do agree though, that the forced family is the worst.

      At some point, someone found out that people who get along with their coworkers work better and like their job better. So, some dense HR directors thought, “If we want people to work better, we should force them to be friends!”

      Then you get mandatory team-builders that maybe two people enjoy, and the rest are thinking about how they’d rather be spending their time.

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      • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Forced family is the worst

        But this is literally how family works for the first 20 years of your life. You don’t get to choose one. You are assigned one from birth :D

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re missing the point. For some people, it’s not faking it

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not missing the point. For most people it is fake and used as a tool against them. The “office family” is a tactic utilized by employers to make workers complacent without raising benefits. It’s in the same toolbox as “pizza parties” and “PTO donation”.

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    • EABOD25@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gotta disagree. I’ve always had the belief that if you’re in management, you don’t get to play the comradery game with staff because that can easily be perceived as preferential treatment or fraternization. Management has their connections with other managers. Staff should use their comradery against management. However, your perspective isn’t wrong either. I just believe that even if you’re faking the “office family,” it still makes work that much easier

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      • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The office “family” gets in the way of clear and honest communication by guilt tripping anyone who disagrees by treating them like someone who upset grandma at Thanksgiving. It has always been counterproductive in my experience.

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