shadowspar

This isn't really your judgement call to make on behalf of somebody else, is it?

I'm a fairly big guy with some martial arts training, so when it comes to being around a bunch of people who are inebriated, I assess the level of risk to me as being pretty low. If I were a woman, and someone who's less physically imposing than almost everyone at the party, my assessed level of risk would doubtless be higher. Too, if I've been raped or subjected to other sexual violence previously -- as a significant number of women have -- I can't imagine my risk tolerance being very high at all.

Fill your boots.

What next, a blog post about fart jokes?

Somehow I doubt anyone would accuse me of starting a witch hunt, or tell me that I needed to take better precautions for my own safety, too.

We were always told that you were supposed to be supplemented with fresh fruit & veg every so often to deal with the lack of fiber, but you can guess how often that happened in the field.

You've got to be kidding me. "Conventional wisdom" says that you need to co-locate everybody from the CEO to the mailroom staff in a big cube farm.

One thing I'll concede -- distributed teams need to work a hell of a lot harder at communication than co-located teams. You have to explicitly make a point of saying a lot of the things that practically get conveyed "for free" when you're in the same physical space.

I completely agree that companies -- teams -- need a shared culture and sense of purpose to gel. If you're undergoing the startup experience and communicating with others like they're humans (which you need to do to make telecommuting work) you'll quickly find you have close friends instead of coworkers, regardless of the distance between you.