Enjoy!
With nail guns, obviously.
I've been along to several, and made myself participate, too. But oh, I loathe and detest such events, the more so with each subsequent one I attended. Just hearing that they're not yet out-dated and the staff liberated, makes my gut tighten and my toes curl.
The only one I truly enjoyed was boating from Thun (or place neary Thun) until Bern.
But, I still don't know why eating and drinking are sooooo underrated. It works and no idiotic coach is needed.
One of the reasons I hate these cringe-worthy events is that many tend to be centered around activities that are physically exclusionary. Which defeats the purpose. (Or is intentional, depending on attitudes of the organizers.)
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Worst team building event ever:
A 'surprise' outing in Switzerland bringing together global employees. Team members were not told what the event would entail ahead of time, apparently in order to heighten the excitement.
The surprise was mountain climbing. Not hiking, technical climbing and rappelling.
Sure, the Swiss employees who were the organizers all had the gear and lifetime experience to go mountain climbing, but folks from flatter landscapes or more tropical climes, completely unprepared, were put in danger.
Not a successful event, to say the least.
These stories remind me of The Office US team building secret trip, disaster, all of them
It's not always events related to sports, we've also done escape rooms, go-kart, BBQ, restaurants, bowling etc never felt cringy or whatsoever. As I said, each one to their own.
I think that ten-pin bowling place has about 10 lanes. 5*10 would work nicely. Rent an entire place out, drinks on tap, bbq outside. Suitable for all ages, physical fitness, etc.
They split us up into groups and we needed to build something in LEGO. But not everyone in the team understood what needed to be built. Each person had a role to play.
I cannot recall the whole exercise; but basically only one person in the team got to see what they needed to build. He would then tell the other person what they needed to do, who would then go and talk to the builders who had to built the thing.
It was fun because they had us running around the building with instructions and updates, all morning...At the end of the exercise we all cam together to see who had understood and executed the instructions given most accurately.
Of course some of the LEGO models looked nothing like the ones they had been told to build. It sounds easy to organise, but I suspect it wasn't that easy.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/two-doz...rland/47675350
Ohhh, the Zürich Unterlander gives the names and it's not the first time an idiot has the idea to use it as team-building event.
We are maybe 10 people in our team, and we've basically given up these kinds of events because people can't be bothered to sacrifice a Saturday for it (some stuff takes longer), nor can they agree on something.
I don't like Paintball (the masks they lend you are hygienic disasters apparently, and that I cannot stand). I also don't really like bowling because of the plastic shoes that make my feet soaking wet (yuck!).
I'd be OK with mountainbiking, but a lot of people here don't even have a bike. I'd also be OK with hiking (reasonable distance, not some freak 25km hike in rough terrain), but again, most people can't be bothered.
Same with snow-shoe hiking (boring for most people).
My stance is that we sit in the office 240 days a year (home office or office-office) and there's no reason to also do some shit indoor event like Laser-tag.
Couple of weeks ago, we went to George''s Grill with the intention of going to the observatory afterwards - but then we just sat in the Restaurant, eating and drinking obscenely expensive meals and drinks on the company credit-card. That felt surprisingly great ;-)
I'd also do a cooking-team event - but again, most people can't be bothered. They just want to eat.
Who am I to judge?