When team building goes bad

[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.

  Why do the rest of us have to suffer?

I suffered as well in the few minutes it took finding one.

[CountDeMoney]

No shit.

Let's hear it for Cathy Collateral Damage.

[grumbler]

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?

Really.  Cathy?  I didn't think anyone thought that strip was clever enough to actually cite.

[garbon]

A boss once told me, when I was telling her about this bitchy client named Cathy, that she was going to send me a Cathy comic. I told her if she did so, I was walking out.

[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.

  Why do the rest of us have to suffer?

Really.  Cathy?  I didn't think anyone thought that strip was clever enough to actually cite.

Does anyone think it is clever?

[DGuller]

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.

I do consider myself lucky.  I cannot recall what I did in my life to develop my math skill.

[grumbler]

Does anyone think it is clever?

I know a guy who thinks it worth pasting into threads... but maybe he just does that to try to make his own statements look clever by comparison.

[CountDeMoney]

My aunt is a big Cathy fan, coffee mugs, calendars, shit like that, because her name is Cathy.  And because she's an imbecile.

[garbon]

Does anyone think it is clever?

I know a guy who thinks it worth pasting into threads... but maybe he just does that to try to make his own statements look clever by comparison.

The point was to note my displeasure by going beyond the pale and making Seeds look upon a Cathy strip.

[Jacob]

The point was to note my displeasure by going beyond the pale and making Seeds look upon a Cathy strip.

It has been Cathystrophic for the thread 

[Malthus]

The point was to note my displeasure by going beyond the pale and making Seeds look upon a Cathy strip.

It has been Cathystrophic for the thread 

But also rather Cathyartic. 

[crazy canuck]

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...

Yep,  years ago I was involved in some litigation against a big box retailer that did those sorts of things to their employees.  As it happened we needed to gather some evidence regarding a particular practice of that organization and one of the best sources for gathering that evidence was former employees.  When asked why they were coming forward with their information, to a person, they all said it was because of the way they had been treated and all of them specifically mentioned the pre-opening bs they had to endure.

[garbon]

The point was to note my displeasure by going beyond the pale and making Seeds look upon a Cathy strip.

It has been Cathystrophic for the thread 

It left Seeds and derspiess bleeding so that's enough for me.

[Zanza]

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.

Yes. There are also team building events which are mandatory, but those will usually be with a some kind of psychologist or external moderator due to serious problems in the team.

The "fun" team building events are usually something where you don't want those that aren't interested anyway. What's the point of taking someone to a kart racing event if they don't want to attend?

[garbon]

The "fun" team building events are usually something where you don't want those that aren't interested anyway. What's the point of taking someone to a kart racing event if they don't want to attend?

What's the team building though? Just sounds like friends hanging out on the company dime.