Cultish company mandates 'emotional bonding sessions' where employees share their personal trauma: 'Most of the team were crying and hugging'

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    Emotional bonding sessions at work - normal in 2024?
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    I've been with my company for about 6 months now. They're really into being a family and sharing things. They ran a session last week where the whole team had to talk about their most traumatic experience and were encouraged to cry and hug. Most of the team were crying and hugging by
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    the end of the session. It felt really wrong to me. I always used to believe in professional boundaries and I thought that was normal. Apparently modern team building says it's better to get team members to see each other as whole people. I've also been told these sessions will be every 4 months.
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    I am a bit down about this. I just want to go to work as a dev and come home and have my life separately.
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    Does anyone work for companies that aren't doing things like this? I don't feel able to keep doing this.
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    workredditaccount77 • 18h ago That sounds like a cult not a job
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    lai4basis 18h ago. • My wife's company did something similar. She wasn't involved diff dept I'm a hard fuking no on this. Employment is a financial transaction and this ain't that.
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    This crosses so many lines imo. The best teams I've been on were in construction. No team building necessary, just work together and it happens
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    丸吧 Linux4ever_Leo • 18h ago . That bonding session would probably be my most traumatic experience. I personally would have noped on out of there and told my boss that I thought it was inappropriate and unprofessional.
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    Peoples_Champ_481 · 16h ago • This feels like a consequence of companies showing zero loyalty to people then being shocked people show zero loyalty right back. Now it's like they're trying to get you to trauma bond. Real talk, if my good friends pulled something like this I would seriously consider ending the friendship. It's forced and manipulative. weird and
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    EvenSkanksSayThanks 18h ago • Ew no I'm a professional. I'm not doing that goofy
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    Ok_Zookeepergame2... • 17h ago I would use the next 4 months to find another job and come up with trauma story. a bull This is not normal. I cant even beleive it's legal.
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    nylo... • • 17h ago Edited 15h ago Screw that coworkers are not your friends or family. I don't share my personal life at work. 2 separate worlds. And none of works business.
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    postmodernist1987 • 17h ago This is clearly a consent violation.
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    Fun-Yellow-6576 · 18h ago . I wouldn't participate at all.
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    Princess-She-ra • 17h ago • That is so inappropriate! And could be so crazy triggering for people who are struggling with trauma. There are reasons that we leave some things for professionals in professional settings. I would've walked out of that session.
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    I work in a granola-y treehuggers kumbaya organization but at least they're understanding enough to offer "optional" sessions or "optional" sharing.
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    forevermore4315 • 17h ago Whole team take a mental health pto the next day. They'd stop real quick.

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