We once had a great argument at work between HR and a senior developer, who didn’t have friends and if he had, prefered them to not work at the same company, hence answering straight 0 to how likely he would recommend the employer to his friends. He absolutely enjoyed working there nevertheless.
Haha yeah, I am on the workforce going on three decades, and no way I’d mix work and play.
Few years back my employer tried to start a local tech conference. All of us got invite codes, “50% off for your friends”. If you had a certain number of referrals you’d get a cash bonus on top, dont remember how much, couple hundred bucks. I passed that code on exactly zero times, because of course I wouldn’t ask my friends to spend money and obvs for me that was a work event. Why would I want my private circle there?
I’ve brought on two friends to my current job because they were in desperate situations. One of them has been ok to work with but complains all the time. The other one pissed me off so bad after three weeks that our argument (this was like the third verbal argument) was very nearly a fistfight. I knew it was gonna be like this. Better than having my friends living on the street.
We once had a great argument at work between HR and a senior developer, who didn’t have friends and if he had, prefered them to not work at the same company, hence answering straight 0 to how likely he would recommend the employer to his friends. He absolutely enjoyed working there nevertheless.
Haha yeah, I am on the workforce going on three decades, and no way I’d mix work and play.
Few years back my employer tried to start a local tech conference. All of us got invite codes, “50% off for your friends”. If you had a certain number of referrals you’d get a cash bonus on top, dont remember how much, couple hundred bucks. I passed that code on exactly zero times, because of course I wouldn’t ask my friends to spend money and obvs for me that was a work event. Why would I want my private circle there?
I’ve brought on two friends to my current job because they were in desperate situations. One of them has been ok to work with but complains all the time. The other one pissed me off so bad after three weeks that our argument (this was like the third verbal argument) was very nearly a fistfight. I knew it was gonna be like this. Better than having my friends living on the street.
Exactly, that would be a hard pass from me too haha