[Sca-cooks] OT: rant about dilbert worthy events

[Heleen Greenwald]

Man! I am really sorry. What a b*llSh*t way to spend time!!!
(not to mention waste of gas, &  energy!)
What Cr*p!
<sending a hug your & your husband's way>
Phillipa
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kirsten Houseknecht 
  To: acovencraftcottage at smartgroups.com ; aCovenCraftCottage at yahoogroups.com ; dvpn-discuss at yahoogroups.com ; sca-cooks at ansteorra.org ; pagan_sca at yahoogroups.com 
  Cc: Mags Peale ; Laurali ; Wayne B. Houseknecht ; Gordon ; sandra pickering ; roger pickering 
  Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:58 AM
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT: rant about dilbert worthy events


  <begin rant>

  My husband’s work had one of those disaster-waiting-to-happen ideas for a
  "bonding" exercise.  Before having a company barbeque they would all divide
  into pre-assigned teams and compete in a "road rally" contest with each clue
  leading to the next clue, eventually leading to the food...  with 15-minute
  penalties for asking questions.

  People were divided up into groups, and sent driving all over the city, and
  OUT of the city, to collect their clues.  Including into some very unsafe
  neighborhoods, and areas where there were no safe places to pull off the
  road to collect the clues.

  One of the clues was a data disk, which required a computer and web access
  (in a road rally???).  People had to either boot up a computer in the car,
  or drive someplace with computer access to read the disk.

  The clues, naturally, sucked.  Many of the slips of paper had phony
  addresses on them, as "fake clues" many of which were miles away, and some
  of which were also in unsafe neighborhoods.  One of the clues required
  serious math, and was full of misspellings, leaving you to wonder if the
  misspellings "meant" anything. (Did “Chruch” mean church, or was it some
  kind of clue???)

  Some of the clues could only be gotten correctly if you knew where things
  like the statue and church were, drove there (not a good idea) and got out
  of the car to count the letters on the statue or read the “founded ___”
  plaque.

  The end result was a "maybe two hour" contest that the boss “requested”
  everyone attend with their wives… that took four hours plus before they
  started calling people to give up and come in, and NO one finished it...
  This ended up with a pile of car sick, overheated, dehydrated, hungry,
  obsessed, "no asking for directions" teams of computer geeks and their wives
  arriving at the barbeque after four  or more hours of driving around unsafe
  neighborhoods at high speed...
  For hamburgers...
  Isn’t this funny <not>

  Did I mention that at least one of the people involved has diabetes? and had
  been assured that food would be arrived at in under two hours?

  <end rant>

  sorry, just had to scream
  submitted to dilbert, dont be surprised if it shows up in a column

  Kirsten Houseknecht
  Fabric Dragon
  kirsten at fabricdragon.com
  www.fabricdragon.com
  Philadelphia, PA     USA
  Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...

  I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...

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