One of my ex-coworkers sent me this today as a reminder of the managers meeting we were in where one of the topics was team building exercises. I thought it was stupid and no one had any suggestions, so I suggested a day of nostalgic childrenās playground games: sack races, spoon races, egg toss, kickball, red rover, etc. Sounded like good fun to the one person that was pushing the topic, but our VP was smart enough to know it was an excuse to bean people with a kickball, clothesline people, tackle people, and chuck raw eggs at each other. The other stuff was just a cover to make it look innocent. The one person that wanted to do something was tasked with forming a committee to come up with something, with the caveat I was not allowed to be on the committee. Later in the same meeting, our VP required I be on the committee addressing our statistical reporting system so I was OK with being snubbed for the team building committee.
I still think old school kids games would have been better than an escape room.
