Part 1: holidays at the office

festive holiday activites at work:

1. during an all-team meeting, managers announce we’re creating gingerbread houses for each table at the holiday luncheon. it’s a “team-building” exercise. we are told we can use company time to create them as long as we track time accordingly.

2. when discussing aforementioned gingerbread houses my group is reprimanded for not working and told to get back to work because there’s production to do. weren’t we just told we could use company time to do this project?

3. another all-team meeting to discuss the luncheon. we’re told we get to play board games at our tables. that’s fun. i’m tempted to bring some apples to apples cards. we’re also told we have a “fun facts” packet to work on. this “fun facts” packet includes a questionnaire and eight pages of activities. these activities include: things to color, secret messages to decipher (with pictures of santa in various poses – also colorable), connect the dots, draw a snowman in the graph, word searches, and another secret message thing. the pages look like they came out of an activity book for ages 2-10.

4. the kicker. people are actually very concerned and confused about when they are to complete these “fun facts” packets. “do we do them before tomorrow? do we do them at the holiday luncheon? i didn’t hear!....” really? i also overheard other people talking about bringing their own crayons and colored pencils for the activity. they are so excited!

the luncheon itself should be amusing. i hope they don’t do bingo again this year.