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Oct. 27th, 2011 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupOnce or twice a month my office lets people go early if they want so they can attend a networking event HR puts on. Usually it's at a bar, and people drink and talk and have a good time. I've never been able to go, because I didn't get to go early when other people did, and I was 100% fine with that because I don't generally do well at social events.
Now, that being said, I was looking forward to today's. I was actually going to get to go, and I have a whole clique of new team members who will let me sit with them and look like I'm actually someone who knows how to make friends outside of the internet.
So I RSVP'd, like you're supposed to do in order to give them an accurate headcount. RSVPing is the polite thing to do, and one is not supposed to be punished for it.
And then today I get an email that we are not meeting at a bar. We are meeting in a conference room on the 19th floor to have an Office Building Scavenger Hunt. There was a list of clues, even. The thing is, given that I am the ex Ninja Office Boy, I know everything about this building and what happens where and could have filled the list of clues out like a survey without moving from my ergonomic cubicle chair.
Then I get a second email about what team I'm on. Guess who else is on my team? Douchey ex-Overboss! By now, my outrage about the scavenger hunt has infected the rest of the team, so everyone's looking over my shoulder like "AWKWARD, SAM. AWKWARD."
And then I get the general announcement email saying "By the way, if you didn't RSVP, you can still come to the party around five, after the scavenger hunt has concluded, and have snacks!"
So wait, I've been roped into a scavenger hunt I didn't know I was signing up for and the slackers who didn't click the "RSVP" button get to show up at five and eat snacks?
I am going home instead, and my boss is going in my place because she agrees that this is made of awkward and she should have spoken up and put a stop to it when they emailed the supervisors to suggest it.
There better not be pizza. If I miss out on pizza because I inadvertently RSVP'd for team building activities, I might have to break out the old Ninja skills and torment HR as only someone who intimately knows this building's climate control system can.
Now, that being said, I was looking forward to today's. I was actually going to get to go, and I have a whole clique of new team members who will let me sit with them and look like I'm actually someone who knows how to make friends outside of the internet.
So I RSVP'd, like you're supposed to do in order to give them an accurate headcount. RSVPing is the polite thing to do, and one is not supposed to be punished for it.
And then today I get an email that we are not meeting at a bar. We are meeting in a conference room on the 19th floor to have an Office Building Scavenger Hunt. There was a list of clues, even. The thing is, given that I am the ex Ninja Office Boy, I know everything about this building and what happens where and could have filled the list of clues out like a survey without moving from my ergonomic cubicle chair.
Then I get a second email about what team I'm on. Guess who else is on my team? Douchey ex-Overboss! By now, my outrage about the scavenger hunt has infected the rest of the team, so everyone's looking over my shoulder like "AWKWARD, SAM. AWKWARD."
And then I get the general announcement email saying "By the way, if you didn't RSVP, you can still come to the party around five, after the scavenger hunt has concluded, and have snacks!"
So wait, I've been roped into a scavenger hunt I didn't know I was signing up for and the slackers who didn't click the "RSVP" button get to show up at five and eat snacks?
I am going home instead, and my boss is going in my place because she agrees that this is made of awkward and she should have spoken up and put a stop to it when they emailed the supervisors to suggest it.
There better not be pizza. If I miss out on pizza because I inadvertently RSVP'd for team building activities, I might have to break out the old Ninja skills and torment HR as only someone who intimately knows this building's climate control system can.
