RANT: Team Building Events

[TabascoElvis]

Other than getting out of work early, I really dislike "team building" events. 6 man department. We put in 45 hours a week together, as it is. We sit within about a 40 foot circle. The lowest tenured guy has been in the dept for 8 years. I can't stand 2 of them, and 4 of us can't stand one of those. What kind of lame bonding do you expect to happen?

Oh Lord, kumbaya.

[Freed Roger]

Sorry dude. hang tough.

[thrill]

Let's do some trust falls, guys!

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

do these events involve booze?

[TabascoElvis]

do these events involve booze?

Not until the mandatory dinner. In fact, the town we're going to just allowed restaurants to start serving alcohol less than a year ago.

[M1IRONMIKE]

Other than getting out of work early, I really dislike "team building" events. 6 man department. We put in 45 hours a week together, as it is. We sit within about a 40 foot circle. The lowest tenured guy has been in the dept for 8 years. I can't stand 2 of them, and 4 of us can't stand one of those. What kind of lame bonding do you expect to happen?

Oh Lord, kumbaya.

I hope you were never in the military....

[ghostrunner]

Other than getting out of work early, I really dislike "team building" events. 6 man department. We put in 45 hours a week together, as it is. We sit within about a 40 foot circle. The lowest tenured guy has been in the dept for 8 years. I can't stand 2 of them, and 4 of us can't stand one of those. What kind of lame bonding do you expect to happen?

Oh Lord, kumbaya.

I hope you were never in the military....

Don't know exactly what TE does, but office stuff (where they usually do this kind of thing) usually doesn't require teamwork in my experience. That's why they make you sit in a walled cubicle.

[KyCardinalFan]

We feel for you Tabasco - we're all in this together!

[Cronos]

I don't know, I actually like this kind of thing. Not that I really find the stupid verbal games all that appealing. If they do a low ropes course in the forest somewhere, that's different. That stuff can be rather fun.

The rest of it I can live without, but I guess chalk it up to the psychologist in me or whatnot, but I think it's really interesting to make people think about stuff within themselves they wouldn't normally touch with a ten foot pole.