And so cringe because most of the time none of us want to be there in enforced group discussionBreakout rooms in trainings!! Hate them lol. Absolute waste of time.
And so cringe because most of the time none of us want to be there in enforced group discussionBreakout rooms in trainings!! Hate them lol. Absolute waste of time.
He said we had to take a four minute break because we were ālateā but we ended up finishing the training one hour early. How were we late then?! Absolute nonsense.Iām on a training and the instructor is like āI will give you FOUR minutes beak only because weāre lateā.
Like not 5, but FOUR. I canāt stop laughing because it is ridiculous. Weāre late - whose fault is that lol. Yours buddy.
I just canāt right now.
I actually quite like this.When I get an email notifiction pop up, and it starts with just my name rather than a greeting, eg:
Jane,
Please could you...
Rather than
Hi Jane,
Please could you...
It just feels condescending to me. It has a very slight passiveāaggressive touch to it. Makes me anxious and not want to read it.
At a workshop I was at this week we had to say one thing from our bucket list. What was clear was everyone needs a holidayOn the subject of training I hate the dreaded ice breaker. I don't want to tell the person next to me three interesting facts thanks. I've started making them up, much more interesting.
Would "an orgy" be an acceptable answer or is that not onAt a workshop I was at this week we had to say one thing from our bucket list. What was clear was everyone needs a holiday
It was so boring I have worked with 80% of the people in the room for years and I don't care what's on their bucket list.
We had a new computer system installed last year and we had to manually input all of our clients and all the stuff we do. So we worked early, late, weekends and Bank Holidays to get it done on time. We helped other departments out and I'm still the office "go to" for it all. Yet we didn't get any thanks. Not one word. No bonus or anything. I mean yes we got paid overtime got the extra hours but a bit of thanks or something wouldn't have gone amiss.The ubiquitous "pizza party" as a reward for hours and hours of hard work. At my previous company we worked five 11 hour shifts per week for two straight months to keep up with customer demand during the holiday season. And after it was over we got "hey, thanks for us being able to make hundreds of millions of dollars off of your extreme hard work and long hours! Here's a few $7 Domino's pizzas! Isn't it nice of us to do this for you??!!" Yeah, take your crappy cardboard pizza and shove it. How about a bonus on our paychecks, something that would actually do us some good? Oh, and as a reward for working 12 hours on Black Friday they gave us each a pumpkin pie. AFTER Thanksgiving. Thanks, jerks.
I just dropped one of my colleagues in it for cherry picking all the easiest pieces of work, after quietly fuming and worrying about it for ages. My boss is putting measures in place, so all good.Some of my colleagues are lazy work dodging gits. Theyāll cherry pick the easy bits of work and leave the harder shittier work for others to pick up. Or theyāll make a meal out of something and spend double the amount of time that it should take them to do a task. I literally have no idea how they can take so long to do things! Luckily my manager is well aware of this and is trying to put productivity type targets in place. Hopefully theyāll have to start working harder otherwise theyāll be disappointed when it comes to end of year reviews, bonuses and pay rises.
I hate these compulsory enjoyment events.@rainbowlemon you can absolutely say no! š¤ my work are pushing this āemployee well-beingā this year by organising activities and dinners outside of work hours. I havenāt gone to any and Iāve openly said itās because they wonāt let me work from home. Iām not gonna commute in and out every day, sit in the office for 8 hours and then head to an activity and dinner with colleagues and not land home until 10pm. Thatās not good for my well-being
My work are doing these āwell being morningsā every quater. You see other stores doing them and having a great time. You see us and all of us donāt even like our boss and we all hate being there . Probably would be more enjoyable if we actually got a long as a full team.@rainbowlemon you can absolutely say no! š¤ my work are pushing this āemployee well-beingā this year by organising activities and dinners outside of work hours. I havenāt gone to any and Iāve openly said itās because they wonāt let me work from home. Iām not gonna commute in and out every day, sit in the office for 8 hours and then head to an activity and dinner with colleagues and not land home until 10pm. Thatās not good for my well-being
My sister did this!!The latest 'break the ice' fad is to tell two truths and a lie (with the audience guessing which is what) ... at the last one I went to, one person's lie was, "I'm really excited to be here"
The "team" dinners and get-togethers are awful if you don't want to be there or if you value your personal time, and sure you can say no, but it almost always reflects poorly on you if you don't go. I've gone along for just the first half hour of some which has been more than fine.
The best '2 truths and a lie' I heard was "I like you, John. I like you, Pauline. I like you, Steve"The latest 'break the ice' fad is to tell two truths and a lie (with the audience guessing which is what) ... at the last one I went to, one person's lie was, "I'm really excited to be here"
I remember an induction i did for an office job we had to tell 1 really interesting fact about ourselves i am not good at speaking in front of 15 people i dont know as i was 12th out of 15 and all these really interesting things my mouth decided to say "I once went Goat herding in the nmountains of Peru" I think my brain disowned my mouth and went home, it impressed 1 or 2 but for some reason a few didnt believe itThe latest 'break the ice' fad is to tell two truths and a lie (with the audience guessing which is what) ... at the last one I went to, one person's lie was, "I'm really excited to be here"
The "team" dinners and get-togethers are awful if you don't want to be there or if you value your personal time, and sure you can say no, but it almost always reflects poorly on you if you don't go. I've gone along for just the first half hour of some which has been more than fine.