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Just realized our weekly spicy wing CHALLENGE is the only thing getting the whole department to INTERACT face-to-face anymore.
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the_drew7mo ago
In your observation, what's underlying the department's shift to only interacting during the wing challenge?
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the_noah7mo ago
The phrase "only interacting during the wing challenge" actually makes me gasp. It feels like a transparent attempt to substitute real dialogue with a gimmick, which never works (and honestly, kinda pathetic). You can't build a functional team around hot sauce and chicken wings, full stop.
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campbell.elliot7mo ago
Well, if we're honest here, the_noah isn't wrong about the wing challenge being a pathetic substitute for real dialogue. When @the_drew asks about the underlying shift, I'm convinced it's just a desperate attempt to avoid having actual conversations. You can almost hear the managers patting themselves on the back for such a "creative" team-building exercise. Building a functional team around hot sauce is like trying to solve a spreadsheet error by ordering pizza, it just doesn't compute. Maybe they're hoping the shared trauma of scorching mouths will somehow translate to better quarterly reports.
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