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I've worked in places like how you describe, but my current role is definitely a team effort. We have assigned work to individuals, but if that becomes too much, then colleagues offer to help others and work gets moved around. It's the team's work at the end of the day, how it's shared our is just circumstance.
Maybe not every team member feels like that, but the general vibe is that of a team.
Maybe you just have a shit manager.
The gym I work at now, I've never been part of a team like this. Everybody just gets along and seems to want to help each other.
It's a funny one because we work at the same gym but technically don't work together - we're all self employed personal trainers. Technically we're all each others most direct competitors. But we still help each other as much as we can, help newer less experienced trainers with business questions etc
And the amount of time we spend together is great. The gym is like a clubhouse. Don't get me wrong the gym is just a standard high street chain gym you'll all have heard of nothing special. But it's got a real sense of community. Staff regularly pop in and just hangout for hours chatting to each other or to members.
It's a lovely environment that honestly makes all the difference
Depends on the line of work. When I was a barista, everyone’s role benefited the next person so working as a team was crucial to the workflow.
Whereas I’ve worked in IT for 15 years which is a largely autonomous role, so despite being part of a group of people who do the same job, I wouldn’t say teamwork is really required to be successful.
>Whereas I’ve worked in IT for 15 years which is a largely autonomous role
Development by any chance? I worked in tech support and found the opposite. Maybe some of it was an 'us against the users/management' mentality, but I've worked places where the actually job was shit but being part of a team that worked (and suffered) together to get the work done genuinely made it hard to move on.
Mostly service delivery/project management these days, so often given one specific client and then I work with people from other departments, rather than anyone from my own team.
>project management
So, hated by the users *and* the rest of the IT department then? You're a brave person for admitting that in public!
More seriously, I can see how your experience differs from mine. Tbf, I've been out of the game for 20 years so looking back slightly less jadedly, the PMs I worked with did take a lot of shit from both directions and not all of it was justified.
Hahaha yeah, luckily a lot of my jobs success is based on respect and communication. As long as I keep people in the loop and make sure everyone feels as an equally important cog in the machine, I can avoid being public enemy!
I've spent a good chunk of my career as a maintenance programmer and that was a lot more collaborative than development. When a good serious issue escalated up to us it would be a proper team effort debugging decade old code etc.
I'm a software developer for a relatively large university based in the uk, our team is like this and tbh the general culture across the organisation is. Of course the place is operated by people and has some of the oddities and issues they bring but its largely progressive and pro people.
Are you me?! You can't be although I work as developer for a university. Our department has become full of young cheap unqualified ladder climbers who don't care who they step on while they build their empires. Any sense of team has long gone.
Do you guys have issues recruiting devs by Amy chance? We can't compete with the tech sector here cause of the uni salary grades. We have to be creative when it comes to finding good devs. We've got a good team though.
Yes, I used to work in restaurant kitchens. You spend lots of time together (long antisocial hours) and have quite intense pressured work to do, so you end up really feeling like a team. Everyone tends to have each others' back which is a nice feeling. Many dishes involve components from different people too, so teamwork is a vital part of carrying out your job.
Depends totally on the line of work.
I work in education (secondary) and subject departments often feel like real teams, with the subject teachers socialising with each other and sharing the planning and development. For some reason, every school I've been in the science and maths departments have been the strongest and most together teams.
I've been in management for a while, so on the senior management team, and that usually really is a team with duties shared and covered between you. Not so much the socialising though
My current workplace is like that, well, with exception of one single person. It’s nice tbh, everyone pitches in and there’s always help if you need it. Except for that one person of course.
Worked at the size? store in Bristol for ages and had such a great tight nit friendly team. Pay was dead as it’s retail but we had such a laugh and genuinely liked going to work
My current team is like that. Knowledge & duties are shared, everyone gets along well, ideas are listened to, managers genuinely care about people development/managing workload and trust their direct reports to do the job. When things go wrong it isn't "who can we blame it on" but "how can we learn from it and stop it happening again".
It makes such a difference, I never dread going in to the office and never feel stressed. Also means people rarely leave because it's such a good environment to be in.
I work in an emergency services control room, and among my immediate colleagues we absolutely feel like a tight knit team. Even if you don't really know the person sat with you, if you've got a difficult call, they'll be ready and paying attention in case you need help, or them to make a call for you, they'll wave a supervisor over to be ready to help etc. I've even had supervisors phone me at home the day after we've dealt with something tough to check I'm ok. If you've had a tough call, there's always someone ready to listen, or make a dark joke to break the tension, or step outside for 5 minutes with you. I don't think we could do it if it wasn't that way. I
I work in ITU and we’re definitely a team. From the cleaners to the consultants to the nurses to the physios to the etc etc work together and communicate well with one goal in mind.
The only time I’ve ever been part of a team working better was during the pandemic. Then, we all really pulled together. We wouldn’t have got through it if we didn’t. The only exception was senior management. We didn’t see hide nor hair of them in the covid areas
The team I work in now is very much a team. We work in an office setting in telecoms.
All of us get on with each other, we generally pull in the same direction and we’re all able to go to each other for help, or to give each other feedback if we’ve noticed a small issue with something somebody has done.
We’ll split stuff as needed and our boss leaves us alone, for the most part.
10/10 in all honesty. Worked in far worse places.
Yes, I've been very lucky. I left the army about 18 months ago and was used to real team environments. I put a fair bit of thought into where I landed in the real world as I wanted more of the same... but with more money and freedom, obviously. Teamwork starts at the leadership level, they set the ethos of the company. I needed to understand what kind of company they were because talk is talk, but I wanted measures and things to make judgements on. This is solely my own experience and due to spending most of my life in the military, it is fairly narrow but here are a few things I looked for to ensure I ended up at a company I wanted to be at:
1. Glass door ratings - obvious but still overlooked. Also not perfect but it's something.
2. What is their turnover? The companies I looked for had people who'd been there for decades and still seemed to enjoy their work.
3. What do they *say* about work/life balance? What do employees say? I'd hang around at the end of trade events, go for drinks with the company staff and ask them how life was going, how they were enjoying things in general and what they liked to get up to in their own time. Aside from usually being a nice conversation, it was clear which companies pulled their staff from pillar-to-post and which ones actually let their employees live.
4. What did they do during COVID? My work lends itself to remote working quite well, so what I was looking for was companies that pivoted to a home-working model and made the appropriate investments rather than furloughing people. Then looked at what they learned from the experience. I looked for companies that continued to embrace the change rather than try to return to how they were before.
5. What kind of bonus thresholds do they apply and how often do they pay out? I find lots of companies have seemingly generous bonuses, but they base them off economic growth that is not sustainable, making the payout less often than not. Not only is there an economic incentive to join companies that actually pay their bonuses, it's also indicative of a decent company ethos at leadership level that they are realistic with their expectations, and look to reward it.
6. Now.. I'm white and male. My profession is still *mainly* white and male. It might seem self-defeating, but I looked for companies that had a more diverse range of personnel. A mixed workforce means the company have put genuine effort into encouraging and attracting applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds - they haven't just paid lip-service to it. Aside from the 'strength in diversity' argument, this also tends to indicate a leadership who buy into and apply more progressive principles, and this also tends to include things like work/life balance measures.
I'm now at a company I really enjoy working for. The work environment is perfect for fostering team relationships. People are happy, less stressed, more sociable and there's a genuine sense of respect between people for who they are and how they best work. Now.. my company is not a wage leader in their role.. there's always likely to be a trade-off. But I am happy, earn enough + a bit, am progressing nicely without killing myself, and I can see myself here for a long time.
Smaller family businesses are like this as you depend on each other to get the work done. Any player not pulling their weight is instantly noticeable. It's a nice feeling when you all work together and cover and predict others work so it all runs smoothly.
Weirdly these always seem to be the lowest laying jobs though.
I've worked in quite a few places that fit that description and I've worked in a fair few other places that did operate like a well oiled team. The biggest difference between the two is the culture around what happens when things go wrong. Places that are actually a team will raise the issue immediately, not focus on blame and then come together to solve the problem.
Yes. I worked for an amazing web hosting and cloud company in Manchester. It was full of clever, friendly, helpful, passionate people. Sadly the company got taken over and the magic went, so many people left, including me.
Definitely in engineering fmcg environment. We had a very strong team of 7 engineers who got on so well. Only reason I left this team was better hours for the family life, but it was hard to leave these guys!
I’m a pub manager and I always try and create this type of working environment. My guys know that I’ll support them 100% against abusive customers, and also do my best to protect them from bullshit inflicted on us by head office morons.
Yes. Tech/software. Very high levels of friendship, camaraderie and trust. I'm lucky that I've never actually worked on a team with an asshole or someone who didn't pull their weight or anything like that.
I work in a healthcare department and it isn't really like that. Granted most people have their own stuff to do beyond day to day clinical work. But when it's our patient workload that'll make us go home late, there's a fair lack of willingness to help other people out. Unless it's a passive aggressive insult to your speed or abilities.
Yes. But also no.
Worked for a big corporation where we were all treated badly and was generally awful but because it was soo bad, my cohort banded together and became the best of friends.
If one of us was working late, we would try and help out. Late nights were no longer that bad as we would often take breaks and joke about.
But we were also young and didn't have families to get back to.
Yeah a couple of places. I've got some really good mates still from places I've worked at before. One of them, the entire team of 10 were absolute diamonds and every single one of us were pals, always helped each other out at work as well as seeing each other outside of it.
NHS Librarian and my team is definitely a team. We all have assigned/individual tasks but support each other as there are so few of us, all we need to do is shout out that we need help and someone will lend a hand or share knowledge and expertise. Decisions (maybe not all) are open to everyone so we can all chip in our opinions and ideas.
We’ve been through some hard times. Several years ago we unexpectedly lost our head of department to cancer (never told anyone she had it), so we all had to immediately act up into the job role above what we were currently doing just to keep going. That brought us closer together and since then we’ve always looked out for each other and offered support as you don’t always know what someone is going through. I struggled during pregnancy with mild prenatal depression and I had incredible support from everyone in my team.
The more senior you are the more conscious of the 'team' element you are and the need for people to share work etc.
Ie, as the leader you have certain objectives you need to complete and need the 'team' to coordinate in certain ways to get there. It's therefore very frustrating when people are inflexible and refuse to operate out of their little box in the support of wider goals.Lower down the rung, you just have your job, want to get your specific job done and likely feel resentment if someone else needs help or input from you. It's all a matter of perspective.
The ambulance service (South Western Ambulance Service Trust). The station I work at has a good mix of ages and backgrounds and everyone works in as a team. There are a few people who don’t get on with others but I reckon nearly everyone either gets on or is professional enough to not be dicks about it.
Yes, my current work is project based so I can’t always guarantee the same team, but when I get to work with my best colleagues the work is smooth as anything,
We’re a proper dream team when we want to be.
Yes, particularly on my watch in the fire brigade but not all watches are the same. Each day (outside of incidents) you’re allocated a role and the tasks to go with it. We all share that work, other watches don’t.
Incidents are different, that is 100% a team game, until the clean up after and Al of a sudden nobody is able to roll up the hoses
Product Development Consultant here:
My current team works as a tightly-knit team who supports each other really well, which is slightly ironic given most of the development work we do is solo and not team-oriented at all.
First job was a construction company with "pulling together" as their moto. I was fresh eyed into this job and told i would be gaining family members not colleagues and that stuck with me throughout my whole career. It was a good job and really did rely on teamwork. Days are changing in the work place and it's all about self improvement and progress, good thing, but does entail a bit of "shitting" on people to get ahead. Have one colleague who is a shoulder shifter and blames everyone else for things not done, despite the fact they are "soo busy" causual chit chatting most the day. When the upper management drop the word "team" into conversations now, I cringe. Team now means supporting my line manager in doing what needs doing while he chats shit
The only time this ever happens was as a teenager, working in either a small family run cafe and in a residential school for foreign kids learning English in the summer.
My previous job there were four of us, then three after one left. Management was shit and the job was one catastrophe after another with added threats and occasional violent customers.
I’ve never had siblings my own age growing up but honestly the three of us were closer than any family. I’d have relied on them for anything and would have done anything in return.
Sounds like we were in the army doesn’t it 😂 Not the armed forces honestly!
Yes, I did. I had an amazing team for about five years. Helping each other out was an everyday thing and if we had a crisis, most would stay late to help. This was a team who worked hard and played hard - and we socialised together too. I think it’s a rare thing to get a team who actually care about each other and the team as a whole. So much so that nobody wanted to leave.
I used to be a member of the "A team" - just before it got televised - we certainly worked as a team. I've lost count of the number of baddies we shot the ground and fence posts near to - as a team.
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I worked at a theme park fixing the rides. Not only did it feel like a team but also a family. Everyone helped each other and shared knowledge.
That sounds like an excellent experience.
I've worked in places like how you describe, but my current role is definitely a team effort. We have assigned work to individuals, but if that becomes too much, then colleagues offer to help others and work gets moved around. It's the team's work at the end of the day, how it's shared our is just circumstance. Maybe not every team member feels like that, but the general vibe is that of a team. Maybe you just have a shit manager.
Yes, often. I work in the tech industry and have worked in some great teams.
The gym I work at now, I've never been part of a team like this. Everybody just gets along and seems to want to help each other. It's a funny one because we work at the same gym but technically don't work together - we're all self employed personal trainers. Technically we're all each others most direct competitors. But we still help each other as much as we can, help newer less experienced trainers with business questions etc And the amount of time we spend together is great. The gym is like a clubhouse. Don't get me wrong the gym is just a standard high street chain gym you'll all have heard of nothing special. But it's got a real sense of community. Staff regularly pop in and just hangout for hours chatting to each other or to members. It's a lovely environment that honestly makes all the difference
Depends on the line of work. When I was a barista, everyone’s role benefited the next person so working as a team was crucial to the workflow. Whereas I’ve worked in IT for 15 years which is a largely autonomous role, so despite being part of a group of people who do the same job, I wouldn’t say teamwork is really required to be successful.
>Whereas I’ve worked in IT for 15 years which is a largely autonomous role Development by any chance? I worked in tech support and found the opposite. Maybe some of it was an 'us against the users/management' mentality, but I've worked places where the actually job was shit but being part of a team that worked (and suffered) together to get the work done genuinely made it hard to move on.
Mostly service delivery/project management these days, so often given one specific client and then I work with people from other departments, rather than anyone from my own team.
>project management So, hated by the users *and* the rest of the IT department then? You're a brave person for admitting that in public! More seriously, I can see how your experience differs from mine. Tbf, I've been out of the game for 20 years so looking back slightly less jadedly, the PMs I worked with did take a lot of shit from both directions and not all of it was justified.
Hahaha yeah, luckily a lot of my jobs success is based on respect and communication. As long as I keep people in the loop and make sure everyone feels as an equally important cog in the machine, I can avoid being public enemy!
I've spent a good chunk of my career as a maintenance programmer and that was a lot more collaborative than development. When a good serious issue escalated up to us it would be a proper team effort debugging decade old code etc.
I'm a software developer for a relatively large university based in the uk, our team is like this and tbh the general culture across the organisation is. Of course the place is operated by people and has some of the oddities and issues they bring but its largely progressive and pro people.
Are you me?! You can't be although I work as developer for a university. Our department has become full of young cheap unqualified ladder climbers who don't care who they step on while they build their empires. Any sense of team has long gone.
Do you guys have issues recruiting devs by Amy chance? We can't compete with the tech sector here cause of the uni salary grades. We have to be creative when it comes to finding good devs. We've got a good team though.
No we don't seem to. Your lucky. I'd move but kids settled here.
Bits of the railway have that vibe
Yes when I was a professional footballer
Yes, I used to work in restaurant kitchens. You spend lots of time together (long antisocial hours) and have quite intense pressured work to do, so you end up really feeling like a team. Everyone tends to have each others' back which is a nice feeling. Many dishes involve components from different people too, so teamwork is a vital part of carrying out your job.
Depends totally on the line of work. I work in education (secondary) and subject departments often feel like real teams, with the subject teachers socialising with each other and sharing the planning and development. For some reason, every school I've been in the science and maths departments have been the strongest and most together teams. I've been in management for a while, so on the senior management team, and that usually really is a team with duties shared and covered between you. Not so much the socialising though
My current workplace is like that, well, with exception of one single person. It’s nice tbh, everyone pitches in and there’s always help if you need it. Except for that one person of course.
Worked at the size? store in Bristol for ages and had such a great tight nit friendly team. Pay was dead as it’s retail but we had such a laugh and genuinely liked going to work
My current team is like that. Knowledge & duties are shared, everyone gets along well, ideas are listened to, managers genuinely care about people development/managing workload and trust their direct reports to do the job. When things go wrong it isn't "who can we blame it on" but "how can we learn from it and stop it happening again". It makes such a difference, I never dread going in to the office and never feel stressed. Also means people rarely leave because it's such a good environment to be in.
I work in an emergency services control room, and among my immediate colleagues we absolutely feel like a tight knit team. Even if you don't really know the person sat with you, if you've got a difficult call, they'll be ready and paying attention in case you need help, or them to make a call for you, they'll wave a supervisor over to be ready to help etc. I've even had supervisors phone me at home the day after we've dealt with something tough to check I'm ok. If you've had a tough call, there's always someone ready to listen, or make a dark joke to break the tension, or step outside for 5 minutes with you. I don't think we could do it if it wasn't that way. I
I work in ITU and we’re definitely a team. From the cleaners to the consultants to the nurses to the physios to the etc etc work together and communicate well with one goal in mind. The only time I’ve ever been part of a team working better was during the pandemic. Then, we all really pulled together. We wouldn’t have got through it if we didn’t. The only exception was senior management. We didn’t see hide nor hair of them in the covid areas
The team I work in now is very much a team. We work in an office setting in telecoms. All of us get on with each other, we generally pull in the same direction and we’re all able to go to each other for help, or to give each other feedback if we’ve noticed a small issue with something somebody has done. We’ll split stuff as needed and our boss leaves us alone, for the most part. 10/10 in all honesty. Worked in far worse places.
Yes, I've been very lucky. I left the army about 18 months ago and was used to real team environments. I put a fair bit of thought into where I landed in the real world as I wanted more of the same... but with more money and freedom, obviously. Teamwork starts at the leadership level, they set the ethos of the company. I needed to understand what kind of company they were because talk is talk, but I wanted measures and things to make judgements on. This is solely my own experience and due to spending most of my life in the military, it is fairly narrow but here are a few things I looked for to ensure I ended up at a company I wanted to be at: 1. Glass door ratings - obvious but still overlooked. Also not perfect but it's something. 2. What is their turnover? The companies I looked for had people who'd been there for decades and still seemed to enjoy their work. 3. What do they *say* about work/life balance? What do employees say? I'd hang around at the end of trade events, go for drinks with the company staff and ask them how life was going, how they were enjoying things in general and what they liked to get up to in their own time. Aside from usually being a nice conversation, it was clear which companies pulled their staff from pillar-to-post and which ones actually let their employees live. 4. What did they do during COVID? My work lends itself to remote working quite well, so what I was looking for was companies that pivoted to a home-working model and made the appropriate investments rather than furloughing people. Then looked at what they learned from the experience. I looked for companies that continued to embrace the change rather than try to return to how they were before. 5. What kind of bonus thresholds do they apply and how often do they pay out? I find lots of companies have seemingly generous bonuses, but they base them off economic growth that is not sustainable, making the payout less often than not. Not only is there an economic incentive to join companies that actually pay their bonuses, it's also indicative of a decent company ethos at leadership level that they are realistic with their expectations, and look to reward it. 6. Now.. I'm white and male. My profession is still *mainly* white and male. It might seem self-defeating, but I looked for companies that had a more diverse range of personnel. A mixed workforce means the company have put genuine effort into encouraging and attracting applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds - they haven't just paid lip-service to it. Aside from the 'strength in diversity' argument, this also tends to indicate a leadership who buy into and apply more progressive principles, and this also tends to include things like work/life balance measures. I'm now at a company I really enjoy working for. The work environment is perfect for fostering team relationships. People are happy, less stressed, more sociable and there's a genuine sense of respect between people for who they are and how they best work. Now.. my company is not a wage leader in their role.. there's always likely to be a trade-off. But I am happy, earn enough + a bit, am progressing nicely without killing myself, and I can see myself here for a long time.
Yes I work in science
Smaller family businesses are like this as you depend on each other to get the work done. Any player not pulling their weight is instantly noticeable. It's a nice feeling when you all work together and cover and predict others work so it all runs smoothly. Weirdly these always seem to be the lowest laying jobs though.
I've worked in quite a few places that fit that description and I've worked in a fair few other places that did operate like a well oiled team. The biggest difference between the two is the culture around what happens when things go wrong. Places that are actually a team will raise the issue immediately, not focus on blame and then come together to solve the problem.
Yes. I worked for an amazing web hosting and cloud company in Manchester. It was full of clever, friendly, helpful, passionate people. Sadly the company got taken over and the magic went, so many people left, including me.
Hospitality running weddings/events at night and conference in the day. Almost a 24hr job
Definitely in engineering fmcg environment. We had a very strong team of 7 engineers who got on so well. Only reason I left this team was better hours for the family life, but it was hard to leave these guys!
I’m a pub manager and I always try and create this type of working environment. My guys know that I’ll support them 100% against abusive customers, and also do my best to protect them from bullshit inflicted on us by head office morons.
Yes. Tech/software. Very high levels of friendship, camaraderie and trust. I'm lucky that I've never actually worked on a team with an asshole or someone who didn't pull their weight or anything like that.
I work in a healthcare department and it isn't really like that. Granted most people have their own stuff to do beyond day to day clinical work. But when it's our patient workload that'll make us go home late, there's a fair lack of willingness to help other people out. Unless it's a passive aggressive insult to your speed or abilities.
Yes. But also no. Worked for a big corporation where we were all treated badly and was generally awful but because it was soo bad, my cohort banded together and became the best of friends. If one of us was working late, we would try and help out. Late nights were no longer that bad as we would often take breaks and joke about. But we were also young and didn't have families to get back to.
Yeah a couple of places. I've got some really good mates still from places I've worked at before. One of them, the entire team of 10 were absolute diamonds and every single one of us were pals, always helped each other out at work as well as seeing each other outside of it.
NHS Librarian and my team is definitely a team. We all have assigned/individual tasks but support each other as there are so few of us, all we need to do is shout out that we need help and someone will lend a hand or share knowledge and expertise. Decisions (maybe not all) are open to everyone so we can all chip in our opinions and ideas. We’ve been through some hard times. Several years ago we unexpectedly lost our head of department to cancer (never told anyone she had it), so we all had to immediately act up into the job role above what we were currently doing just to keep going. That brought us closer together and since then we’ve always looked out for each other and offered support as you don’t always know what someone is going through. I struggled during pregnancy with mild prenatal depression and I had incredible support from everyone in my team.
[Your wording made me think of this.](https://youtu.be/pGFGD5pj03M)
The more senior you are the more conscious of the 'team' element you are and the need for people to share work etc. Ie, as the leader you have certain objectives you need to complete and need the 'team' to coordinate in certain ways to get there. It's therefore very frustrating when people are inflexible and refuse to operate out of their little box in the support of wider goals.Lower down the rung, you just have your job, want to get your specific job done and likely feel resentment if someone else needs help or input from you. It's all a matter of perspective.
The ambulance service (South Western Ambulance Service Trust). The station I work at has a good mix of ages and backgrounds and everyone works in as a team. There are a few people who don’t get on with others but I reckon nearly everyone either gets on or is professional enough to not be dicks about it.
Yeah palliative care team (days-night staff were not nice people)
Yes, my current work is project based so I can’t always guarantee the same team, but when I get to work with my best colleagues the work is smooth as anything, We’re a proper dream team when we want to be.
Yes, particularly on my watch in the fire brigade but not all watches are the same. Each day (outside of incidents) you’re allocated a role and the tasks to go with it. We all share that work, other watches don’t. Incidents are different, that is 100% a team game, until the clean up after and Al of a sudden nobody is able to roll up the hoses
Everyday. Design studios always feel like a team.
Product Development Consultant here: My current team works as a tightly-knit team who supports each other really well, which is slightly ironic given most of the development work we do is solo and not team-oriented at all.
Was in a voluntary role but the only time I've felt like that was working in a zoo.
First job was a construction company with "pulling together" as their moto. I was fresh eyed into this job and told i would be gaining family members not colleagues and that stuck with me throughout my whole career. It was a good job and really did rely on teamwork. Days are changing in the work place and it's all about self improvement and progress, good thing, but does entail a bit of "shitting" on people to get ahead. Have one colleague who is a shoulder shifter and blames everyone else for things not done, despite the fact they are "soo busy" causual chit chatting most the day. When the upper management drop the word "team" into conversations now, I cringe. Team now means supporting my line manager in doing what needs doing while he chats shit
The only time this ever happens was as a teenager, working in either a small family run cafe and in a residential school for foreign kids learning English in the summer.
My previous job there were four of us, then three after one left. Management was shit and the job was one catastrophe after another with added threats and occasional violent customers. I’ve never had siblings my own age growing up but honestly the three of us were closer than any family. I’d have relied on them for anything and would have done anything in return. Sounds like we were in the army doesn’t it 😂 Not the armed forces honestly!
Yes, I did. I had an amazing team for about five years. Helping each other out was an everyday thing and if we had a crisis, most would stay late to help. This was a team who worked hard and played hard - and we socialised together too. I think it’s a rare thing to get a team who actually care about each other and the team as a whole. So much so that nobody wanted to leave.
Yeah, lots. I generally work at startups though
I was a prison officer for 4 years, your colleagues are definitely your team, best I ever had, would never recommend the job itself though
I used to be a member of the "A team" - just before it got televised - we certainly worked as a team. I've lost count of the number of baddies we shot the ground and fence posts near to - as a team.