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I am the newest employee in my office. Recently, we scrambled our internal teams. Additionally, we are experimenting with a stricter version of Google's 20% work idea. We have self organized groups working on side projects over a span of a few months. Here and there management authorizes a day where those projects can be worked on during work hours. Only one of those days occurred since I started. This means the projects are rarely discussed in the office and are mostly discussed in chat rooms on weekends, from what I've gathered from coworkers. A few important things happened to give context to my problem

1. When we scrambled internal teams, I ended up on a team consisting of one of these side project groups, plus another employee who wasn't involved in a side project.


2. This experiment started before I was hired and ended yesterday.


3. I discovered after the fact that at some point towards the end of the window for this experiment, my team added the other employee on our team to their side project.

So summing it up, a team gets two new members. They add one new member to their side project, don't say anything to the other until it was too late. All of this happened unknown to me until it was too late to ask to join in. I am upset by this, but unsure how to proceed. What I want to do is bring it up at our next meeting and calmly, professionally ask why they brought on the other new team member but not me and point out that it makes me feel like I don't belong on the team. My concern is without some sort of closure, there will be some resentment towards the team as we move forward.

My hope is that it is workplace appropriate behavior to say "I don't feel like I belong with the team and here's why", but I am new to the office environment and fear not being taken seriously (no emotions allowed at work) or that it will backfire and paint me as "high maintenance". Should I try approaching just one member rather than everyone? Is it worth bringing up at all? Is my plan a sound one?

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I am the newest employee in my office. Recently, we scrambled our internal teams. Additionally, we are experimenting with a stricter version of Google's 20% work idea. We have self organized groups working on side projects over a span of a few months. Here and there management authorizes a day where those projects can be worked on during work hours. Only one of those days occurred since I started. This means the projects are rarely discussed in the office and are mostly discussed in chat rooms on weekends, from what I've gathered from coworkers. A few important things happened to give context to my problem

1. When we scrambled internal teams, I ended up on a team consisting of one of these side project groups, plus another employee who wasn't involved in a side project.


2. This experiment started before I was hired and ended yesterday.


3. I discovered after the fact that at some point towards the end of the window for this experiment, my team added the other employee on our team to their side project.

So summing it up, a team gets two new members. They add one new member to their side project, don't say anything to the other until it was too late. All of this happened unknown to me until it was too late to ask to join in. I am upset by this, but unsure how to proceed. What I want to do is bring it up at our next meeting and calmly, professionally ask why they brought on the other new team member but not me and point out that it makes me feel like I don't belong on the team. My concern is without some sort of closure, there will be some resentment towards the team as we move forward.

My hope is that it is workplace appropriate behavior to say "I don't feel like I belong with the team and here's why", but I am new to the office environment and fear not being taken seriously (no emotions allowed at work) or that it will backfire and paint me as "high maintenance". Should I try approaching just one member rather than everyone? Is it worth bringing up at all? Is my plan a sound one?

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I am the newest employee in my office. Recently, we scrambled our internal teams. Additionally, we are experimenting with a stricter version of Google's 20% work idea. We have self organized groups working on side projects over a span of a few months. Here and there management authorizes a day where those projects can be worked on during work hours. Only one of those days occurred since I started. This means the projects are rarely discussed in the office and are mostly discussed in chat rooms on weekends, from what I've gathered from coworkers. A few important things happened to give context to my problem

1. When we scrambled internal teams, I ended up on a team consisting of one of these side project groups, plus another employee who wasn't involved in a side project.


2. This experiment started before I was hired and ended yesterday.


3. I discovered after the fact that at some point towards the end of the window for this experiment, my team added the other employee on our team to their side project.

So summing it up, a team gets two new members. They add one new member to their side project, don't say anything to the other until it was too late. All of this happened unknown to me until it was too late to ask to join in. I am upset by this, but unsure how to proceed. What I want to do is bring it up at our next meeting and calmly, professionally ask why they brought on the other new team member but not me and point out that it makes me feel like I don't belong on the team. My concern is without some sort of closure, there will be some resentment towards the team as we move forward.

My hope is that it is workplace appropriate behavior to say "I don't feel like I belong with the team and here's why", but I am new to the office environment and fear not being taken seriously (no emotions allowed at work) or that it will backfire and paint me as "high maintenance". Should I try approaching just one member rather than everyone? Is it worth bringing up at all? Is my plan a sound one?

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