3: I hate everyone I work with and would rather spend my time chewing barbed wire than do anything with them, do I still have to pretend to enjoy team-building activities?
Anybody who’s spent any time in corporate America knows that ‘team building’ activities are really there to prevent any real teams from forming, as the presence of real teamwork would reduce the need for management. So the fire-walking and paintball and ‘upward bound’ events are serving their real purpose quite well.
The first Friday of every month I look wistfully across the parking lot to the neighboring company that has a BBQ party. If they served beer I’d seriously consider changing careers.
yeah, but unions are bad, unAmerican, etc. The real purpose of those stupid team-building exercises is to develop an aversion to forming groups that might force corporations to stop exploiting the people who create the profits they reap for themselves. Just saying….
Will I get paid to attend those stupid team-building exercises? OK, I guess that’s alright then. Could I get paid more if the company didn’t have to pay for the stupid team-building exercises? That would be even better.
(Of course since I’m in IT we usually don’t have to go to such things and thank the Gods for that!)
ejcapulet over 14 years ago
Or
3: I hate everyone I work with and would rather spend my time chewing barbed wire than do anything with them, do I still have to pretend to enjoy team-building activities?
puddleglum1066 over 14 years ago
Anybody who’s spent any time in corporate America knows that ‘team building’ activities are really there to prevent any real teams from forming, as the presence of real teamwork would reduce the need for management. So the fire-walking and paintball and ‘upward bound’ events are serving their real purpose quite well.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
I trust my team like a genetic birth control devise
SameAsOldFfred over 14 years ago
The first Friday of every month I look wistfully across the parking lot to the neighboring company that has a BBQ party. If they served beer I’d seriously consider changing careers.
SameAsOldFfred over 14 years ago
Then again, the grass always looks greener…
trekkermint over 14 years ago
where i work, we are not allowed to speak during our workday, just type not social, but they do like to let folks go :(
texcat49 over 14 years ago
yeah, but unions are bad, unAmerican, etc. The real purpose of those stupid team-building exercises is to develop an aversion to forming groups that might force corporations to stop exploiting the people who create the profits they reap for themselves. Just saying….
Awfulhorrid over 14 years ago
Will I get paid to attend those stupid team-building exercises? OK, I guess that’s alright then. Could I get paid more if the company didn’t have to pay for the stupid team-building exercises? That would be even better.
(Of course since I’m in IT we usually don’t have to go to such things and thank the Gods for that!)