call me cynical, but i always find corporate get-togethers' - or to use its posher term "team building" - a mighty waste of time. not to mention, a tad superficial.
this morning, i clicked on the email from the head gaffer informing us of one such bond&getintimatewithyerfellowcoworkers bollocks to take place on the third and fourth wednesday of this month.
as if daily interactions of the 'hi' and 'bye' sort are not enough.
and this means:
1. our ever-increasing pile of work will have to be re-scheduled, hence the possibility of working overtime
2. we have to go to some posh hotel venue for this "team building" tosh
so i'm actually employed by the workplace to display niceties, understanding and affection throughout towards amoeba's, complete spastics, chavs and gits who can't comprehend that the cosmoverse doesn't revolve around the broadcasting industry whatsoever?
and these are exact same lifeform's who turn up for work in t-shirts with holes in "strategic" places, dogtags, shorts, or psychadelic-painted jeans, toerings and neon-coloured slippers. to these lot, such "clobber" reflects their utterly clever and original creativity.
but of course it is for lifeform's whose five-seconds-long inspirations are results of having their brains - or whatever's left - filled up with cigarette smoke.
and to think the Slave Labour Relations department are willing to part a crazy amount of dosh for this "gathering" which has been set aside as part of their monkeys staff training budget. when part of this exact same dosh could actually supplement my year-end miserly thirteenth-month bonus.
serves to show the types of priorities they could think up of and where they lie, eh?
as enscribed by the letter b @ July 9, 2004 06:15 AMexactly, the self-importance they attach to their miserable selves is at times so laughable i almost advise them to join the circus - not that there are any over here. and it's not as if they have had made any remarkable achievements in their short span of existence.
not sure if it's me but i do find youngsters - oh yeah most of them have nilch working experience prior to - these days utterly rude and not properly brought up.
as blahed by the letter b @ July 10, 2004 07:27 AMBah, I also have a team building exercise coming up in a posh hotel venue. What's the point... they pay me, I work the tills. The only time I can ever see teamwork being needed is in a military situation where you only get one chance to succeed. Without "preparation" your and mine cow-workers will still show up with the feeling they are superior to every one in the room, every single one of them.
as blahed by Miles @ July 9, 2004 10:56 PM