Suggestions needed

[selenay]

In a couple of weeks, my team at work is supposed to be having a fun day. The idea is to do some kind of fun activity in the afternoon followed by a meal, all paid for by the company.

Except none of us can think of a fun activity to do. Seriously, we've got nothing here.

Has anyone out there on my lovely f-list (or even lurkers, really) got any ideas? Pretty please?

If we don't do it (and spend what was budgeted) our budget for these things gets cut next year. As I work for a company that loves to cut staff benefits and treats to fund savings regularly (all new staff at my level have just lost their health care - glad they can't do that to me as an established member of staff *sigh*), we're determined that they won't get the excuse to do it on this issue :-)

Comments

[tejas.livejournal.com]

There ya go.

The only way I've ever seen or heard of these kinds of things being actually useful is when they get people out of their usual comfort zones with their coworkers. Get into an entirely different type of environment and get a chance to know each other all over again.

[selenay]

That makes a lot of sense :-) The response of my colleague who is organising this thing to the list of suggestions that I emailed today was "Wow, you've actually got several good ideas!"

I can't decide whether the surprise was at me having ideas or the ideas being good :-)

However, the ideas that we don't have time to organise (it's on 12th October) are being put into a file for the next one and I think we'll be sorting out what we do at the beginning of next week. And hey, this time around we might actually have fun as opposed to the other office 'fun' days that we've all pretty much hated :-)