> I've never saw this water-cooler experience you mentioned. It's always small talk of the "Did you see the game yesterday?" sort
Does not match my experience at all. Depending on how you approach the water cooler you will get :
- People going to the water cooler to get water. And go back to their desk asap to stay focused (which is fine)
- People who go there and wanna have some chit chat about whatever interests them. Sometimes that means the game and sometimes not.
But yeah; but if you go in asking "what did you do this week end"; I have some colleagues who will happily jump in to say "I tried playing with Haskell, but those monads thing are are to fully grasp".
Never ever in my life, have I described my week end on slack. If I am going to be sitting in front of a screen and worsen my carpal tunnel syndrome; it's going to be for work related stuff.
I'm sure there was a time where people "never shared their weekend through text" either. I remember those types "I only use a phone for calling." Most of them are long gone now.
Does not match my experience at all. Depending on how you approach the water cooler you will get :
- People going to the water cooler to get water. And go back to their desk asap to stay focused (which is fine)
- People who go there and wanna have some chit chat about whatever interests them. Sometimes that means the game and sometimes not.
But yeah; but if you go in asking "what did you do this week end"; I have some colleagues who will happily jump in to say "I tried playing with Haskell, but those monads thing are are to fully grasp".
Never ever in my life, have I described my week end on slack. If I am going to be sitting in front of a screen and worsen my carpal tunnel syndrome; it's going to be for work related stuff.