Timeline for How to decline participation in team building activities
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| Aug 1, 2014 at 6:42 | comment | added | Carson63000 | @jwenting threats works fine if one person doesn't want to waste their weekend but everyone else is willing to. But like I said, where I come from, nobody will stand for crap like that. Again, I'd be curious to know what country you're in that such a situation is commonplace? | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 6:22 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I know my employer can force me to take vacation time off at their convenience, but if they tried to make me use that time to attend a training event the organiser had better not be holding their breath waiting for me to show up, for their own sake! | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 6:20 | comment | added | jwenting | @Carson63000 just make it understood that non-participation will reflect poorly on your performance review, meaning no raise, no promotions, and you're first in line to be laid off in the next cycle and see people turn up and fake a happy smile for the boss... | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 4:27 | comment | added | Carson63000 | @jwenting - curious what country that is in? In a similar 20 years (in Australia) I have never heard of a company even considering mandatory team-building activities outside of business hours. They know that if they tried, nobody would come! | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47 | comment | added | user2338816 | @jwenting My experience is almost entirely opposite. Almost all 'teambuilding' activities have been on company time. On rare occasions when not, they were also not mandatory. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 7:34 | comment | added | jwenting | on company time? Rarely seen that. 95% or so of the "team building activities, attendance mandatory" I've encountered over the last 20 years were in private time. Scheduled either after office hours, during weekends, or people were forced to take time off to attend (companies here have that option, to schedule a number of days a year that employees have to take off from work that are deducted from your holiday allowance). | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 21:53 | comment | added | Cristina Georgescu | This is a pretty good answer. However I wonder how much of this applies when the company schedules this team building events in your free time (eg. in a weekend)? Time that is usually spent with my spouse and not at work. | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 19:51 | history | edited | Kasra Rahjerdi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2014 at 18:35 | comment | added | Amy Blankenship | It may just be that the OP would be happier at a place that skews more toward "life" in work/life balance. | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 13:10 | vote | accept | Cardiner | ||
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| Jul 30, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | Cardiner | Good answer. I understand what you are trying to tell. I am very good at what i do and i communicate a lot at work, just wanted to please everybody. Thanks for response :) | |
| Jul 30, 2014 at 11:37 | history | answered | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |