<i>&gt; eating together</i><p><i>&gt; respecting our non-team lives</i><p>These don&#x27;t feel compatible, and aren&#x27;t in my experience on teams of that size. Claims on people&#x27;s time only grow as teams become entrenched, and &quot;eating together&quot; is definitely one of them.<p>My coworkers don&#x27;t have to be my friends (though some of course become friends), they have to be competent professionals who do the right thing.