Thanks, boss.
When you observe the safe haven of our evenings and weekends by scheduling company events during company hours, we’re loving you lots. Because come on, we all have lots going on after work — clothes need washing, family needs visiting, and the kids have a sports tournament out of town.
So throw that company picnic on a sunny Friday afternoon. We’ll get the Frisbee going with the assistant manager and gather around the wobbly buffet table to try the secretary’s homemade potato-and-egg salad or the vice-president’s expensive, store-brought brownies. Get those team-building exercises motoring on Monday morning, when we all need coffee jolts and trust falls to perk us up for the week. And toss your recognition lunches in the middle of the week, when a chilled-out Wednesday barbecue helps get us through to the other side.
When company events are scheduled on company time, we get a magical little moment where the photocopier stops, lines slow down, and we all relax for a couple chilled out hours of
AWESOME!
13 Comments
November 2, 2009 at 6:14 am
Double, triple AWESOME[SsssSsssss] for this. Love it. No doubts. I prefer to start work on time [or even earlier] and finish work on time.
November 2, 2009 at 11:15 am
It is a pleasure and better that way :)
November 2, 2009 at 12:28 pm
No kidding. Great post.
November 2, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Could not agree more with this post.
November 2, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Recognition lunches. Very funny.
November 9, 2009 at 12:26 pm
lol why is there a salad in the post
April 21, 2010 at 11:38 am
Why ISN’T there a salad in EVERY post?
November 15, 2009 at 10:46 am
So true. I’m reading this as I’m preparing for my company’s Sunday “luncheon”. Boo.
November 15, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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November 16, 2009 at 5:38 am
I can’t stand when we have mandatory company events on the weekend (or even in the evening).
I don’t get paid to see you people after 5pm, let alone partake in forced merriment.
If you really want to make employees happy, instead of spending a buttload of money on a picnic, let us go home two hours early with pay!
April 21, 2010 at 11:14 am
Amen, sister.
January 7, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Nice post. Keep up the Good work!
January 23, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Or at school