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Offline initial_D

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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2008, 01:26:30 am »
A game of Cut Throat Poker.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2008, 11:34:52 am »


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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2008, 11:37:35 am »
Quote from: BJB on June 10, 2008, 05:13:46 pm
group sex?

Close. We played Twister.
Quote from: johngenx on June 10, 2008, 05:26:02 pm
3. Take the time saved by not having group-hug meetings and add it to the time saved from not having to deal with the asshats, and give everyone every other Friday afternoon off.  Heck, make it from 11:00am and have a "suggested lunch meeting spot" that is not an obligation, but let it be known that you're buying some appetizers.
4. I guarantee that #1-3 will increase productivity.  Use a portion of the gains to close the office between Christmas and New Years and the time off is with pay.

Fantastic ideas!!! Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of clout.

The company I work for gives Christmas Day off; Christmas Eve and Boxing Day are NOT holidays, they say. New Years Day is also off, but nothing in between. We don't do August long weekend. Also, because July 1st lands on a Tuesday, we have to take Monday off without pay in order to get a long weekend then.

I just think its funny that our company pays for the CEO to have a condo in Calgary (we don't have an office in Calgary, we're in Airdrie) - that his son frequents for 'leisure time' - and we also pay for his airplane and all the costs (including fuel) that is associated with it. If we got Friday afternoons off, or even every other Friday afternoon off; our company moral would be so much higher.

But instead... we have group hugs.

At least today I had everyone laughing. Usually everyone's groaning about the stupid questionaires we have to take.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2008, 05:10:57 pm »
Hmmm Company Jet.............Mile HIGH KLUB coupons........... :pimp:...and if tha BOSS has a Condo...condoms fer the rest O U as well..........
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2008, 05:42:11 pm »
You're exactly right.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2008, 06:20:28 pm »
Lots of booze and a game of Truth or Dare. 
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2008, 06:29:52 pm »
At 8am on a Wednesday morning....

Mighty interesting.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2008, 06:38:19 pm »
Quote from: BJB on June 10, 2008, 05:13:46 pm
group sex?

 :rofl2: :rofl2: Interesting post-meet work dynamic...
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2008, 06:53:15 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Bob on June 11, 2008, 06:38:19 pm
Quote from: BJB on June 10, 2008, 05:13:46 pm
group sex?
:rofl2: :rofl2: Interesting post-meet work dynamic...

That depends on the group.  ;)
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2008, 09:29:07 pm »
Why don't you do a fund-raiser where you can smash a car with a mallet for quarter (or a loonie), but use the CEO's Bimmer
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #30 on: June 11, 2008, 09:38:28 pm »
Quote from: wannabe4x4ing on June 11, 2008, 11:37:35 am
At least today I had everyone laughing. Usually everyone's groaning about the stupid questionaires we have to take.
What'd you use? A list of our idiot suggestions to get them chuckling?
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #31 on: June 12, 2008, 11:23:00 am »
We played Twister.

Someone suggested something similar to the beating idea - only using MY car (86 Civic - dubbed 'Suzie'). Only, once I replace it it's being put in the hands of my 15yr old brother (he gets his license in September). I got in crap from my parents for not making him buy it from me (funny, this from the people who gave my other younger brother - 17yrs old - a 2004 Chev 1/2 ton just because they were sick of driving him to hockey practice, which they ALSO pay for). My youngest bro doesn't play hockey, he does down-hill biking and pays for it all himself. He also works every weekend and after school 3x a week to pay for his hobbies. OH! And if I need a hand around the house, he's the first to offer.

I can't get over the favoritism in my family. So I'm giving Danny a free car. It's not like its a hot rod, but he can put a bike rack on the back and a snowboard rack on the roof and drive himself to his activities.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #32 on: June 12, 2008, 02:31:26 pm »
Things were much better when you fired all the unhappy people and there were no HR departments.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #33 on: June 12, 2008, 03:01:50 pm »
So true.

My Grandpa says that unions only protect people who don't want to work.
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #34 on: June 12, 2008, 05:00:39 pm »
Quote from: wannabe4x4ing on June 12, 2008, 03:01:50 pm
So true.

My Grandpa says that unions only protect people who don't want to work.

That's probably the most sweeping statement I've heard in a while...  ::) ::)
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #35 on: June 12, 2008, 05:56:53 pm »
Quote from: wannabe4x4ing on June 12, 2008, 03:01:50 pm
So true.

My Grandpa says that unions only protect people who don't want to work.

Yup, your grandpa sounds like an expert, allrighty...

..perhaps you could be the exception in your family and read about the history of the labour movement in Canada and how it played a key role in the writing of the labour codes that afford YOU some protection today.  Union's ain't perfect, but the generalization made by gramps is wrong.

When I was in management, I sat across the table from five different unions, and the people that belonged to those unions were 99.9999% hard working skilled folks (like electricians) that were often well represented by their unions.  They did a lot to keep us honest...
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #36 on: June 12, 2008, 06:06:32 pm »
"sweeping statements"  ONLY permitted by by OPSEU in Ontario....(Public service Union) ::) :P...I've always wanted to be part of the BOILERMAKERS UNION........hourly quaffing of a beer and chaser.....my kind O' skill......... :cheers:
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #37 on: June 12, 2008, 06:11:01 pm »
Quote from: johngenx on June 12, 2008, 05:56:53 pm


. read about the history of the labour movement in Canada and how it played a key role in the writing of the labour codes that afford YOU some protection today. 


That was then.  And they were helpful.  But now?  Not so much. The unions do nothing positive for me in any form..either directly or indirectly. With all the work rules unions have, they DO protect the slackers...and even encourage it.  A regular non-union job like mine (skilled trades) those who work hard, fast and with precision get paid more.  In a union shoppe?  Doesn't matter if you are slow, fast, or anywhere in between...you get paid the same.  So why bother to work hard if the reward is the same?  So they don't work hard.

We often have to go into union shoppes to repair hard tooling.  And the stories I could tell about the stupidity in those places.....
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #38 on: June 12, 2008, 06:13:00 pm »
I leave my hard tooling alone................soflty ..sofltly..no catchee minkie..... ::) :P
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Re: Team Building (AKA Group Hug Meetings)
« Reply #39 on: June 12, 2008, 06:25:02 pm »
Hook up the presentaion projector and some speakers and watch Office Space.
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