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.
I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?
Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
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...