Who Goes To Work To Have Fun? (NY Times guest editorial)

[ljm2002]

8. I have always absolutely hated corporate-induced "fun"...

...with one exception, the Friday afternoon beer bashes we once had at a couple of companies I worked for, because those were unstructured and you could talk to coworkers you normally did not run into. But of course, it was questionable to provide beer to folks before they drove home from work... but it never was a problem so I guess people were good at pacing themselves. And they did provide food as well.

But the day-long, "Let's all celebrate by going to Alcatraz!" or whatever -- yech. Or the "team-building exercises" -- double-yech. Or the corporations who brag about how cool and trendy they are, how "if you want to work here you have to have a fun attitude" -- barf.

It's not that I never had fun at work, I did. But it was spontaneous and sincere, not the by-the-numbers corporate BS that gets shoved down the throats of people in the workplace, who all have to pretend they love it because their jobs depend on it. Gag me.