It's hard getting closer to my coworkers over Zoom, but there's no equivalent to going to the bar after work. Is it weird if I invite a coworker to play video games together instead?

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It’s not weird. In fact, I’ve done that with coworkers and in a regional Slack. You can avoid singling people out by announcing your plans to the group. For example, “This isn’t a traditional social event, however I’ll be playing Rocket League tonight at 730 PM. Open invitation for all skill levels. No pressure to join; spectators are welcome.” If there’s a channel designation for people to optionally join (like in Slack), tell people to find you there for planning.

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Love this idea.

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I'd rather that then the "virtual happy hours" over video that get increasingly awkward as time has gone on. I hate being on video.

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Not weird at all. Any activity outside of work that you and your colleagues are happy to engage in is fair game in my opinion, excuse the pun. Video games are excellent to find people you can work well with, certainly in cooperative games. That said over time you and your colleagues regardless if the start is a little rocky, you will learn better ways to communicate and work well together.

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I think this is a great idea! I might steal it, to be honest. But I guess it depends on whether or not you had a relationship with the colleague before lockdown? I would love to be invited to a HH or something.

I would love if a coworker invited me to play video games 😄

Like, in your apartment or something? Or just join a game virtually

Absolutely not weird! I have a co-worker that actively invites others to join a casual game. It allows people from different teams get to know each other outside of work.

We used to play games (board/card/video) after work but because of 'rona we haven't hung out a lot... so a lot of my co-workers/friends who played D&D do it over video. They have a blast. D&D was never my thing so I didn't join.

My co-worker/friend will be coming over with his family to play some games and have some deep dish pizza from our homeland of Chicago. *yay thanks Rosati's for being here in Texas*

We haven't had any new team members on our dev team since way before WFH, so we haven't had to introduce ourselves... but if we did, I'm sure we would meetup on a patio or somewhere safe.

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