Team Building nonsense, this Saturday!

[hans kraay fan club]

I hope you all enjoy a good day Saturday, cheering on Engerland in the football and the rugby from your bar stool or lounge sofa.

Our [French] boss has decided that 13th October is a good date for an all-day company conference, 60 miiles away.

We need to be in Abingdon for 9.30am for 'registration, welcome and coffee', followed by the 'conference' bit. After a 'light lunch' will will be standing in the rain building rafts or some other such 'team-building' shenanigans, before scrubbing up for a formal dinner at 7pm. The whole caboodle finishes at midnight [no free bar either] and as management the earliest tactical escape we'll get away with is about 10.30pm.

No chance of seeing any of the soccerball. Just hoping there'll be a TV somewhere for most of the Rugby.

What a bag of cack.

 

[REDLAND]

not to mention the Cricket

:sucksToBeYou:

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It gets worse..........

 

[clapham_gull]

Utter nonsense and remember that if anyone else in your "team" dares to suggest that the exercise is a good idea, just realise that you literally staring into the eyes of the soul of moral compromise.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I'll try to remember that.

 

[Scoffers]

Surely you can come up with an imaginative excuse for not attending, sick relative, Jury Duty, your piles have flared up again, you don't like the french, you work for yourself and not the team - so no point going, next door neighbour has your dog held hostage etc etc etc

 

[clapham_gull]

I'll try to remember that.

Yes do, staring into the eyes of the soul of moral compromise

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Surely you can come up with an imaginative excuse for not attending, sick relative, Jury Duty, your piles have flared up again, you don't like the french, you work for yourself and not the team - so no point going, next door neighbour has your dog held hostage etc etc etc

If that were any any way possible, it would be done.

New boss. Has been made VERY clear to all staff that full attendance is expected. Note will be made and future prospects will not be good for shirkers.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I'll try to remember that.

You poor bugger.

Why dont you go into the work kitchen......put some salt in a glass, fill it with water, drink it....make retching noises, rush to the loo and go home sick!!!!

Voila


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[smudge]

There's no "I" in teamwork!

 

[The Large One]

I hope you all enjoy a good day Saturday, cheering on Engerland in the football and the rugby from your bar stool or lounge sofa.

Our [French] boss has decided that 13th October is a good date for an all-day company conference, 60 miiles away.

We need to be in Abingdon for 9.30am for 'registration, welcome and coffee', followed by the 'conference' bit. After a 'light lunch' will will be standing in the rain building rafts or some other such 'team-building' shenanigans, before scrubbing up for a formal dinner at 7pm. The whole caboodle finishes at midnight [no free bar either] and as management the earliest tactical escape we'll get away with is about 10.30pm.

No chance of seeing any of the soccerball. Just hoping there'll be a TV somewhere for most of the Rugby.

What a bag of cack.

What a wanker your boss is.

Tell him you're a free spirit, that if you have to be in a team, insist on playing the 'libero' role. If you're all to play to your strengths, that's the role for you. If he argues with that, remind him that the concept of a team is to take responsibilty together, not have someone bark orders at you. Every team needs a leader, granted, but someone who leads by concensus, not by divide and rule.

Then you can take your sweet tooshy off into the TV room, and enjoy the footy.

The team will not then have its 'libero' having a strop, you will be happy, and will able to work much more effectively and efficiently, and the manager's face needn't turn that gallic shade of green. Everyone's a winner!

 

[Moshe Gariani]

You poor bugger.

Why dont you go into the work kitchen......put some salt in a glass, fill it with water, drink it....make retching noises, rush to the loo and go home sick!!!!

a bit drastic - but I can see that working pretty well...

 

[chez]

Shouldn't team building events be done in work time!!??!!

 

[The Large One]

If that were any any way possible, it would be done.

New boss. Has been made VERY clear to all staff that full attendance is expected. Note will be made and future prospects will not be good for shirkers.

Tell him from me he's a cunt.

 

[Dave the OAP]

There's no "I" in teamwork!

but there is "me"

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You poor bugger.

Why dont you go into the work kitchen......put some salt in a glass, fill it with water, drink it....make retching noises, rush to the loo and go home sick!!!!

As I say, if I could get away with it I would.

There may be a queue of people lining up to feign illness on Friday afternoon, but it WILL be held against anyone who does.

I wondered about having a 'nasty fall' during the team-building excercise, and excusing myself from the dinner, thus getting home for the rugger?

 

[Scoffers]

If that were any any way possible, it would be done.

New boss. Has been made VERY clear to all staff that full attendance is expected. Note will be made and future prospects will not be good for shirkers.

Yes, I can see it now, the scene at the Executive Table :-

New Boss
"Where is that Monsier Hans Kraay?"

Person Sitting Next to New Boss
"Ah his dog, it has been, how you say, 'eld hostage, by his neighbour"

New Boss
"Mon dieu, he has never been a team player, move him to administrative affairs"

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Shouldn't team building events be done in work time!!??!!

that does seem to be the generally held opinion here. In fact, I would go so far as to say that is the opinion of all but ONE of the people here.

The ONE that matters, sadly.

 

[smudge]

On one leadership course I did we were in the middle of Bodmin Moor when I had to build a raft & get my team across a "shark infested stream". Now, I've seen the Blue Planet & I'm quite certain that sharks are not found in streams, especially on Bodmin Moor.

I got them across though!

 

[The Large One]

Tell him from me he's a cunt.