Comments on: Corporate retreats http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:19:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Tdave http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596/comment-page-1#comment-22420 Tdave Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:37:48 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596#comment-22420 I only went to "picnic day" of a corp. retreat as the guest of a relative. They did some gimmick involving row boat racing on a creek. I played volleyball with the (over-the-top) arrogant, obnoxious son of the big boss on my team. Who had made a grand entrance in his BMW convertible, and made an annoying prick of himself. He saw me as some kind of competition because I was the only guy in his age range. He acted like he was a star athlete and had to make up for the lesser players on his team by hogging the court, smashing into the 40 year olds, and trying to outdo me. I figured I shouldn't say anything or complain because I was a guest, and he was "Mr. Bigshot's" kid. I only went to “picnic day” of a corp. retreat as the guest of a relative. They did some gimmick involving row boat racing on a creek. I played volleyball with the (over-the-top) arrogant, obnoxious son of the big boss on my team. Who had made a grand entrance in his BMW convertible, and made an annoying prick of himself. He saw me as some kind of competition because I was the only guy in his age range. He acted like he was a star athlete and had to make up for the lesser players on his team by hogging the court, smashing into the 40 year olds, and trying to outdo me. I figured I shouldn’t say anything or complain because I was a guest, and he was “Mr. Bigshot’s” kid.

]]> By: Lindsey http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596/comment-page-1#comment-22401 Lindsey Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:00:25 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596#comment-22401 I went on one last summer for my department, there was a lot of crying followed by a lot of drinking, not sure it it actually worked All my company did is send off one dept off at a time and make you spend 4 days with each other tell all about your life before and they really like the juicy stuff, again all it did was spend a lot of corp funds that could have gone elsewhere I went on one last summer for my department, there was a lot of crying followed by a lot of drinking, not sure it it actually worked

All my company did is send off one dept off at a time and make you spend 4 days with each other tell all about your life before and they really like the juicy stuff,
again all it did was spend a lot of corp funds that could have gone elsewhere

]]> By: fixedgear http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596/comment-page-1#comment-22342 fixedgear Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:28:23 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7596#comment-22342 Since I work for the Defense Department and we spend public taxpayer dollars, we can't really do this sort of stuff. So we do cheesy non-travel versions. My bicycle club buddies and I rented a Velodrome for three hours of fun. While we were there we got talking, and the 'coach' told us that they hosted corporate retreats as team building exercises. 40-something mid-level managers are given brakeless one speed bicycles that cannot coast and are turned loose on a banked track after a half hour of instruction. I'd pay to see that. Since I work for the Defense Department and we spend public taxpayer dollars, we can’t really do this sort of stuff. So we do cheesy non-travel versions.

My bicycle club buddies and I rented a Velodrome for three hours of fun. While we were there we got talking, and the ‘coach’ told us that they hosted corporate retreats as team building exercises.

40-something mid-level managers are given brakeless one speed bicycles that cannot coast and are turned loose on a banked track after a half hour of instruction. I’d pay to see that.

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