Retreats that management thinks will magically overcome organizational and personnel issues through forced socialization: Not OK.
My experience is this, with varying degrees of excruciating boredom, annoyance and lingering bitterness.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Apr 24, 2008 7:26:22 am PDT #6230 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jars - Apr 24, 2008 7:30:55 am PDT #6231 of 10001
I love me some Y: The Last Man. Even after what they did to 355. Woe.
So I've volunteered for this [link]
Naked... yay?
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2008 7:32:58 am PDT #6232 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Woe.
Jars, I seriously could not go on to the next issue for several minutes after that. I thought I was ready a couple times, and then I couldn't do it.
Glamcookie - Apr 24, 2008 7:33:34 am PDT #6233 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Agreed. Hated to see 355 go.
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2008 7:35:40 am PDT #6234 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That shit was positively Whedonesque.
Susan W. - Apr 24, 2008 7:36:40 am PDT #6235 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm currently wary of anything in the shape of a retreat because last time we had one--OK, it was on-site, but a long meeting with an outside facilitator to deal with team-building issues--it turned out to be a bait and switch to get someone fired.
But I've yet to go on a work-related retreat that I didn't at least dislike. I don't like enforced team-building and the whole rah-rah cheerleading attitude where I'm supposed to get all glowy-eyed and embrace the mission. I actually like my current organization's mission and am happy to support it, but I don't want to embrace it as such, because this is my JOB, not my LIFE. So attempts to make me a good little team drone just anger me.
Glamcookie - Apr 24, 2008 7:36:40 am PDT #6236 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh I also love the name Clara but GF quickly axed it. It's so cute!
Jars - Apr 24, 2008 7:36:55 am PDT #6237 of 10001
I just... I still don't understand it. I really, really though they deserved a happy ending. I was crying like a little girl.
Pix - Apr 24, 2008 7:39:19 am PDT #6238 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'm home today. I broke down and got a doctor's appointment for this afternoon. It's probably a virus, but I should at least have her listen to my lungs and rule out infection.
Susan W. - Apr 24, 2008 7:43:47 am PDT #6239 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Ooh, I like Clara.
ION, I think I'm having anxiety dreams about my mom dying. Normally I don't even remember my dreams. But two nights ago I dreamed I was house-sitting by myself in my childhood home, waiting for my mom to return. She never did, and the house started to flood--water running across the floor and pouring from the ceiling. And last night I dreamed that Annabel and I were in my childhood home, just the two of us, and I was about to go away, flying somewhere, and leave her by herself. I was packing, and I took one of her stuffed animals. She protested, and I told her she didn't need Pablo when I was leaving her Pinky, Waffle, and Costco (yes, she really has a stuffed horse she calls Waffle and a lion named Costco--don't ask me why). I'm kinda appalled at my subconscious on that one...