Friday.
Thank god its M-F'n Friday. It seems like it took two weeks to get here so its arrival is particularly appreciated. Today however, is a "special" Friday, as it is a "team building" Friday at work for my "team". What this means is that we get to leave early, around lunch, to "build our team". This usually entails having a massive carb laden lunch, going to a movie and getting home about normal time. While I enjoy these diversions, my manager has no love for tradition so I will most likely have some NASTY e-mail in my inbox Monday. It will yammer on about how we didn't properly notify the proper authorities, properly or with any authoritative notification of propriety...whatever.
Moving on..
I am part of the "Accessory personnel" team, which essentially means that all of the departments at work which are comprised of 3 or less people are jammed into a leftover "team".
When the team building was first established, the customer service organization was divided into 4 or 5 teams (no accessory people, mind you) all named after Greek mythological figures. My exact words upon hearing this was, if I remember correctly, "How gay."
Team "Atlas" and "Dionysus" were chosen names for two of the teams. I suggested that our accessory team name should be "Testiclese" but it was not well received and by the time we were allowed to participate, the whole ridiculous mythology idea was for all intents and purposes, dead.
So for about a year I was "team building team less" and had no access to the merits of team building.
What merits you ask? Well, besides the development of the "team" dynamic, camaraderie, and socializing outside of a work setting, there is something that team building provides that I was missing and I feel that this really makes all the day to day nonsense a little easier to deal with:
Free alcohol.
Near and dear to my heart, alcohol, is available to any team member wishing to have a drink (or 3 or 4) with your team building lunch, provided your individual lunch tab does not exceed $35. For me, I usually have a lunch tab that involves a $5 club sandwich of some sort and the rest used for my adult beverage(s) of choice. Massive gold margaritas are the usual choice, where they float one to 3 different flavors of liquors on top of the actual margarita on the rocks. This enhances my ability to "team build". To be honest, my absolute favorite is to pair this with bowling and pitchers of cold beer, instead of a movie, and then you are REALLY team building. Trust me, this is the best truth serum available to the civilian market, and you can learn who secretly has a problem with who at work. Not this time however.
We used our movie money to buy "toys for tots" (not my idea) so my day ended much earlier than expected.
So long story short, there was not much room for pranking but, I still left a secret trap....
Thank god its M-F'n Friday. It seems like it took two weeks to get here so its arrival is particularly appreciated. Today however, is a "special" Friday, as it is a "team building" Friday at work for my "team". What this means is that we get to leave early, around lunch, to "build our team". This usually entails having a massive carb laden lunch, going to a movie and getting home about normal time. While I enjoy these diversions, my manager has no love for tradition so I will most likely have some NASTY e-mail in my inbox Monday. It will yammer on about how we didn't properly notify the proper authorities, properly or with any authoritative notification of propriety...whatever.
Moving on..
I am part of the "Accessory personnel" team, which essentially means that all of the departments at work which are comprised of 3 or less people are jammed into a leftover "team".
When the team building was first established, the customer service organization was divided into 4 or 5 teams (no accessory people, mind you) all named after Greek mythological figures. My exact words upon hearing this was, if I remember correctly, "How gay."
Team "Atlas" and "Dionysus" were chosen names for two of the teams. I suggested that our accessory team name should be "Testiclese" but it was not well received and by the time we were allowed to participate, the whole ridiculous mythology idea was for all intents and purposes, dead.
So for about a year I was "team building team less" and had no access to the merits of team building.
What merits you ask? Well, besides the development of the "team" dynamic, camaraderie, and socializing outside of a work setting, there is something that team building provides that I was missing and I feel that this really makes all the day to day nonsense a little easier to deal with:
Free alcohol.
Near and dear to my heart, alcohol, is available to any team member wishing to have a drink (or 3 or 4) with your team building lunch, provided your individual lunch tab does not exceed $35. For me, I usually have a lunch tab that involves a $5 club sandwich of some sort and the rest used for my adult beverage(s) of choice. Massive gold margaritas are the usual choice, where they float one to 3 different flavors of liquors on top of the actual margarita on the rocks. This enhances my ability to "team build". To be honest, my absolute favorite is to pair this with bowling and pitchers of cold beer, instead of a movie, and then you are REALLY team building. Trust me, this is the best truth serum available to the civilian market, and you can learn who secretly has a problem with who at work. Not this time however.
We used our movie money to buy "toys for tots" (not my idea) so my day ended much earlier than expected.
So long story short, there was not much room for pranking but, I still left a secret trap....
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