When team building goes bad

[Valmy]

I have to say that piñata idea was really creative pity it was such a disaster.  This is why you should avoid creativity at team building events and just take everybody out for lunch once or twice a year.

[CountDeMoney]

you can just opt out in my department, so no one is forced to attend.

  That does seem to defeat the entire purpose, doesn't it?  Those who don't need it will take attend, and those who do need it will opt out.

That is pretty hilarious 

Reminds me of The Economist piece a few years back that described how Wal-Mart's model of early-morning rallies and team exercises before the store opened up to get their employees revved for the day totally failed in Germany, because so many employees would hide in the bathrooms

<insert any number of possible jokes about Germans and rallies here>

[Maladict]

Wal-Mart's model of early-morning rallies and team exercises before the store opened up to get their employees revved for the day

That actually happens? 

[CountDeMoney]

Dude, you ought to see the bullshit that goes on in Best Buy every morning.

TIME FOR: POINT OF SALE JEOPARDY!

[DGuller]

Wal-Mart's model of early-morning rallies and team exercises before the store opened up to get their employees revved for the day

That actually happens? 

Yes, it does, I've seen it in a couple of documentaries.  Nothing made me more glad that I have in-demand skills than watching that.  I thought that kind of bullshit was degrading to the employees.

[Valmy]

Back when the founder was still running things people used to love working for Wal Mart and doing those lame team building things was actually sort of fun.  But that was because, I think they also got stock options and lots of stuff so you actually did feel some loyalty to the company.  Now working for Wal Mart sucks ass and you get treated like crap...but they still make you do the lame team building crap. 

But that is just what I have heard from disgruntled former employees.

[Valmy]

Dude, you ought to see the bullshit that goes on in Best Buy every morning.

TIME FOR: POINT OF SALE JEOPARDY!

If working in Big Box retail was not humiliating enough on its own...

[DGuller]

Maybe the purpose of such exercises is to drive intelligent people out from a job where intelligence may be a liability?

[CountDeMoney]

Nothing made me more glad that I have in-demand skills than watching that.  I thought that kind of bullshit was degrading to the employees.

Consider yourself lucky; in the current economyi, not everybody is so fortunate.

[garbon]

Nothing made me more glad that I have in-demand skills than watching that.  I thought that kind of bullshit was degrading to the employees.

Consider yourself lucky; in the current economyi, not everybody is so fortunate.

Ah, sob story Sally, right on cue.

[Jacob]

Nothing made me more glad that I have in-demand skills than watching that.  I thought that kind of bullshit was degrading to the employees.

Consider yourself lucky; in the current economyi, not everybody is so fortunate.

Ah, sob story Sally, right on cue.

Bitchy Betty is right on schedule too.

[CountDeMoney]

Cunty Cathy doesn't give a shit about the devolution of the American employment model into a disposable service industry.  Working poors is other people.

[derspiess]

Have you considered a career in the trades, Seedy?  Starting pay is not great but in a few years you can work your way up.

[garbon]

Cunty Cathy doesn't give a shit about the devolution of the American employment model into a disposable service industry.  Working poors is other people.

Just for that you get a Cathy comic.

[derspiess]

Cunty Cathy doesn't give a shit about the devolution of the American employment model into a disposable service industry.  Working poors is other people.

Just for that you get a Cathy comic.

  Why do the rest of us have to suffer?