wtf?!
you tell me that i'm going on a mandatory "retreat" to "begin discussions about integrating the department's divisions and better utilizing strengths from each area. Concentrating on enhancing comprehensive offerings to customers." and then I find out it involves two giant high-ropes courses, a zip-line, and a giant 50-foot rope swing over water. and a very special guest is going to be there.
Yes, i've been known to say i want to do some things before i die, but, I also want to do them on my own terms. there's a reason i'd never go on one of those Road Rules or Fear Factor shows, and this is it. When I want to jump out of an airplane, I'll do it. When I want to climb ropes 50 feet in the air, I'll do it. Until then, no way in hell. I HATE HEIGHTS. And I'm clumsy.
So, yeah. This isnt something like eating tako at the sushi place, where teasing will get me to get over it. This is "I AM GOING TO FALL TO MY DEATH" fear here. And in front of all my coworkers, too. Yeah.
My only hope is that my department is too cheap to pay for all that, and just rented a room in the facility.
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Your employer has been known to waste vast amounts of cash on useless "team building" activities.
It is another way for useless management to make it appear as if they are "doing something".
Posted by: Nala | May 9, 2005 11:16 AM
Yeah, I know... that part wasn't shocking. It was the whole outdoor/adventure team-building part, when it's supposed to be about restructuring the organization.
I've got enough of the outdoors in my life right now. I don't need to observe it from 30-50 feet up, climbing ropes everywhere.
Posted by: Gigamatt | May 9, 2005 11:22 AM
Sarah got to go to Dave & Buster's for her "team building" session. Nothing brings employees together like a game of "Whack a Mole."
Posted by: evebird | May 9, 2005 1:02 PM