At staff meeting today

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
For team building exercise we were to reveal something about ourselves that other staff members do not know. One person said she was escorted off an airline for telling the person sitting next to her that she was an assassin to prevent conversation.

As for me the peer guy I revealed having a mental illness. The irony to my statement is I was hired as peer specialist because I have a mental illness, needless to say everyone was shocked.
 

Oh, man, I HATED those team-building meetings. At one large national company I spent a few years with, we had a full-day off-site team building exercise once a year and everybody, but everybody, hated them.

Everybody lost a day's efficiency (which, of course, meant the next few days were killers). Our clients were screaming for a week about everybody being gone.

One year, we had to make teams and build edifices out of Legos that represented "the spirit of our company". As our company was on the verge of being bought out by another mega-organization and nobody was sure whether we'd have jobs after the merger, the "edifices" were pretty piss-poor, to say the least. Another year, we all had to "fall backwards" and be caught by the bosses. That didn't go over well, either, as nobody trusted the bosses farther that they could see 'em.

My idea now of a morale-building exercise is to take myself to the mall and buy myself something nice. Morale takes a nice upward turn immediately, you betcha.
 
LOL.... we have monthly in-services... ( 8 hour mandatory one today)
At one for Psych education, our local mental health service director came in and asked each to stand up
introduce ourselves, and state what we wanted to be when we grew up....My reply put a few on the floor.
" If I manage to grow up, I want to be a Bad Example"
 

At my last job, we had a Team Meeting (our department) every Monday AM. I seen it as very useful, but then again, meetings never bothered me.
 
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