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As an NT, could you help me understand your feelings towards this event? I would really enjoy learning more about my coworkers and what is meaningful to them. It sounds like it would reinforce team bonds and help me understand my coworkers beyond their just their superficial work layer. I'm sure they have fun interests and experiences to share which we might even have in common and nerd out about, or grow into a new interest for me that could enrich my life.
With rare exception, team bonds at big companies are superficial and these forced social situations aren't going to produce deep bonds.
More to the point, I have work I actually want to do, and shit like this isn't going to get it done any faster. Nothing you learn about my dog, kids, the weather, etc is going to make work faster, on the contrary the absolute best case is that we'll spend more time catching up about non-work shit.
If management has time to think this stuff is a good idea, they aren't good managers, especially if they manage anyone that has no interest in these things.
Feels relevant somehow, consider listening to act one of https://www.thisamericanlife.org/796/what-lies-beneath
If you're going to spend 33% of your life around a group of people, it seems like the most rational choice would be to choose a group of people you know something about, understand and enjoy, right? Getting lots of work done in isolation in a cold, hostile environment surrounded by strangers seems to me like a worse choice than getting less work done with fun people you enjoy, with the feeling like you're all in it together and can rely on each other to handle challenges bigger than any single person as a team. Life's not just about getting the most work done possible before you die, right?
I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting that. In a perfect world we'd all be doing things we love surrounded by people we love. I'm saying this sort of shit isn't going to turn coworkers into friends. If I think we'll get along, I'm going to have a sense of that through natural means. We're probably not going to get along anyway. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586171/full