IHO of Brie - Worst team building activity for you?

[pinotgrig]

Say your boss plans a mandatory work team building activity. What would the worst-case scenario be for you?

[awkwardpenguin]

Improv. I'd die of embarassment.

[pinotgrig]

Mine would be anything athletic. So golf, surfing, any sort of team sport. I am not particularly athletic and would be really embarrassed to have my lack of skills on display.

[cjeanette]

I pretty much hate them all.

Except the time we went to the Royals game and never left the bar area. That was fun.

[zarapipe]

Ropes course at 8m pregnant was pretty awful.

[Susie]

Anything requiring a swimsuit.

We used to do a firm family day at six flags. One year it was really hot, and a lot of people went to the water park. Nope octopus. I stayed through the group lunch and then hit up the nearby outlets.

[pizzapizza]

Strip Club/Hooters...

kidding this would not happen. But it would probably be the worst.

[zarapipe]

Jun 8, 2016 12:53:30 GMT -5 @this said:

Anything that would involve me in a bathing suit in front of CWs. I would die before attending anything at a water park, lake, whatever. No ma'am.

Our department is having an optional pool social at the end of this month. I responded NEWPPP as soon as I got the invite.

[countthestars]

karaoke

[charlotteandwilbur]

I had to go to one for DH's work that was karaoke. While I was pregnant and couldn't drink. So, sober karaoke is at the top of the list for me.

But I agree with swimsuits too. My mom, who is in her 60s, had to go to one at a water park with all of her colleagues who are in their 20s and 30s. THE WORST.

[shortstax]

Jun 8, 2016 12:55:12 GMT -5 pizzapizza said:

Strip Club/Hooters...

kidding this would not happen. But it would probably be the worst.

Yes, it does.

In 2004:
Boss:  Team Lunch at StripClub!
employee:  umm, I think that's a bad idea. I mean, we have Shortstax (the only girl) on the team now.
Boss:  Nah, it's tame at lunchtime. It's not like we're taking her at night.


Man, I would give a million shrute bucks to be able to go back in time, tell 21 year old me to stop "following directions" and tell them all to F off.

[pinotgrig]

Jun 8, 2016 12:54:14 GMT -5 zarapipe said:

Ropes course at 8m pregnant was pretty awful.

That seems like a liability!

[h]

Of the realistic options (I.e., taking things like group sex, protesting an abortion clinic or attending a Trump rally, strip clubs, etc. off the table), I would say anything requiring me to wear a swimsuit or play a team sport (softball, volleyball). Followed closely by golf. I have done all of those plus the strip club with work people, though. I also hate work events that require me to sing in front of an audience (karaoke and the like), but I find them marginally more palatable than swimsuit events and sports.

Of the other work events I have had to attend, I have been fine with happy hours, nice dinners out, dinner parties in people's homes, watching sporting events, cooking or wine tasting classes, those things where you paint a canvas, spa days, boat rides, going to horse races, indoor sky diving, psychic readings, trivia nights, 80s theme parties, bowling, murder mystery parties, and escape rooms. But almost all of the above elicited at least a few objections.

[Deleted]

Bathing Suits required.

I am so lucky that we just have ice cream socials and awkward Yankee Swaps.

[sewf]

Karaoke. My own husband very rarely hears me sing, I'm not doing it in front of my coworkers. We're a very relaxed group, but NOPE.

[Brie]

The escape room is high on my list, but also haunted houses.

I am extremely jumpy and would likely pee myself at least once.

[pugz]

HIGH ROPES COURSE!

[lindsaymg]

GoKarts, like the really fast ones. I don't do "driving for sport".

We do water ones All.the.time. but nobody (and I mean nobody) has a perfect (or near perfect) body so we all drink and don't worry about it. I work with pasty dudes in tech and some other relatively DGAF women so it bodes well for us. I am actually planning our tubing outing now!

[VillainV]

Anything that involves a bathing suit. Yes, this has happened before.

[scm1011]

The suggestions of karaoke and improv both made me shudder, so those.

I had to do a forced work outing in my bathing suit a few weeks ago. I was at a conference in Florida and we had an afternoon off (which I had planned to fill with room service and Netflix), but my (male) boss was all "I found this beach 20 miles away that's supposed to be awesome, lets go check it out! Don't forget your bathing suit!". So yeah, I definitely sported a bathing suit (14 weeks pregnant no less), in front of my boss.

[zarapipe]

Jun 8, 2016 12:58:56 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

Jun 8, 2016 12:54:14 GMT -5 zarapipe said:

Ropes course at 8m pregnant was pretty awful.

That seems like a liability!

I didn't participate in much- but I had to walk around with them in the sweltering heat. I fell, so that sucked. It was a horrible day

[h]

Jun 8, 2016 12:58:27 GMT -5 shortstax said:

Jun 8, 2016 12:55:12 GMT -5 pizzapizza said:

Strip Club/Hooters...

kidding this would not happen. But it would probably be the worst.

Yes, it does.

In 2004:
Boss:  Team Lunch at StripClub!
employee:  umm, I think that's a bad idea. I mean, we have Shortstax (the only girl) on the team now.
Boss:  Nah, it's tame at lunchtime. It's not like we're taking her at night.


Man, I would give a million shrute bucks to be able to go back in time, tell 21 year old me to stop "following directions" and tell them all to F off.

It was pretty common for big law firms to take summer associates to strip clubs when I was in law school in 2000. And I've heard a ton of stories about how much more that sort of thing went on in the 80s and 90s. It would absolutely not happen at my firm (or most firms I am familiar with) now, but there was definitely a time when strip club outings were a thing. Ugh.

[h]

Didn't someone on MM have to go to a work event that required wearing a wet suit at some point? Surfing maybe? That would suck.

[rootbeerfloat]

I once had a work event where we took boats out to the sandbar and hung out all day. It required a swimsuit. I can't remember if we drank, but it was fun, so probably. I've done other work-related activities at the beach, too, so I guess that is not a problem for me. But that's probably a geographic exception lol.

I'm not athletic, so I don't want to play golf or softball or climb anything.

[bowies]

Sports or exercise, hands down. Though my team recently went to one of those fancy driving ranges with waiters and I was surprisingly good.

My only hard no is anything involving swimsuits. The company summer picnic was majorly scaled back last year from a theme park rental to a beach day. No one went. Lol!

[cricketwife]

Escape room.

[cjeanette]

Jun 8, 2016 13:40:18 GMT -5 swizz said:

My office has mentioned going to a shooting range.

Out of the 12ish people, I'm the only one who doesn't own a gun and go regularly.

While I'm not opposed to this as an activity, it's not really one I'M jazzed about going to. Guns scare me.

That would be a hard no for me.  I have never held a gun and I don't plan to start now.

Esp not with my Fox-News loving, Trump supporting co-workers.

[bronxgirl]

This thread is giving me new appreciation for my workplace because we don't do any of this shit.

[boxerdog]

Anything involving any sort of acting/improv/being put on the spot.

[mskitkat]

Jun 8, 2016 12:53:30 GMT -5 @this said:

Anything that would involve me in a bathing suit in front of CWs. I would die before attending anything at a water park, lake, whatever. No ma'am.

One of the other teams in my building had whitewater rafting. I thanked my boss for never subjecting me to that.