Analyst on my first project here. My team is fairly intense and nobody really mentions their personal lives - can I schedule a zoom happy hour for the team? Understand they want to be at their computers are little as possible after working long hours, but feeling isolated.

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I personally think it is a great idea, but depends on the group

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Arrange happy hours with fellow analysts first…as a manager if I worked 12 hrs and some analyst scheduled a happy hr I’d be obligated to go but still annoyed lmao

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D4 you made me chuckle lmao

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Just don’t.
Our new manager just scheduled a Happy Hour and I am trying to come up with a polite decline.
I don’t want to share anything personal with my team and I’m sure they’re just as interested in my life as I’m in theirs.
This is just work, for heaven’s sake.
If you feel isolated try to find the other extrovert on the team and call them up to chat :)

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I enjoy happy hours with my team, they’re a great bunch

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Yes also be very careful with the types of activities you put in these happy hours. I’ve gotten on one too many of these where there are extremely alienating activities (“let’s go around the room and tell where you and your SO first met?” Etc.)

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PWC1 if you've lost a significant other or have gone through a terrible breakup it would be pretty painful to talk about at a work hh.

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Try to mingle with your fellow analysts/other peeps at your level or around your age. Tbh your team sounds like total losers but it may just be the virtual environment...

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Agree with this. Got kids, husband, gotta make dinner and spend time with family connecting and planning for the next day. I promise you, the LAST thing I want to do is sit in front of a screen with a beer and pretend to care enough to make small talk. It’s the worst. Maybe peers your age or around you career level would be more interested in doing these happy hours and genuinely enjoy them.

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I'd check with your peers and also with your manager. Have you tried connecting with people in your local office or your start class? That's a great place to start. I'm sure there are other analysts feeling the same as you are.

I've done my fair share of zoom HHs but it can be exhausting to sit at my computer for another two hours and also skip the gym for a zoom HH. Definitely needed and important to support the team, just think about are there different ways to connect perhaps.

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Definitely. Maybe bounce it off of one or two of your team members first but I always appreciate a good opportunity for a beer.

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Develop interests outside work

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Do it! It’s highly appreciated usually. Try also seeing if your team would be open to co locate! I did this and drove it up the ladder and now we’re co locating and I’m getting a snapshot 👍🏼

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D5 - no one is forcing you to attend the happy hour or co-locate so I don’t see the problem. Also I said gauge interest first! I also love working from home

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I usually just drop a meme in the group chat and gauge the response

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Wow. It looks like a lot of people think of their co-workers as robots. There are legitimate many reasons to decline a HH or social activity. But to call them dumb or laying down a blanket ‘never’ response is quite shocking and doesn’t represent the awesome people I work with.

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Just don’t, sounds like your team consciously chooses to focus on their work and not mention their lives. The holiday season is coming up, use these upcoming gatherings/ zoom calls to get to know them. The majority of us literally roll our eyes when we’re invited to these happy hours and feel obligated to attend

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Everyone is like “why didn’t Spock ever mention Michael Burnham in the original series?” and see? This is why. He was just in an intense working environment where he didn’t mention such things

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What about a 30 min virtual lunch and chat? Still not ideal but could potentially be a nice group activity

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Don’t ask us. Ask the person you’re closest with on the team if it sounds like a good idea, preferably one who knows the rest of the team

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Try to schedule the happy hour so that it doesn’t delay their work or cause them to be at the computer longer than they’d otherwise be. Aka manage the workload better so that a 7pm happy hour means everyone can log off after that very happy hour ends.

Start with coffee chats with individual members, then consider the idea of an optional happy hour once you test the waters on how your teammates are like.

Maybe do an informal poll and see if folks are interested before setting up one.

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