Let’s Bring This to America

[supergee]

A defeat for mandatory fun

Comments

[cmcmck]

When I was still working, I utterly loathed what I used to call: 'compulsory jollification parades' and refused to attend them.

[armiphlage]

We had a mandatory picnic/carnival Fun Day event every summer in the parking lot at work, with bouncy tents, food trucks, and games.

Then for cost savings, they cut the bouncy tents and food trucks and games that cost money.
The few games left involved running or throwing or jumping on hot asphalt.
Those games got banned after a number of injuries.

So for several years, we had a few thousand people forced to stand out on a hot asphalt parking lot, sweating in the sun and getting sunburn for two hours, before the managers decided we had enough fun and allowed us to file back inside to work.

We were so glad when they finally decided to cancel Fun Day.

[arlie]

Good. Too often HR is hypersensitive to lawsuit risk, but in this case maybe that fear will induce them to lay off the so-called "fun".

OTOH, given the overall lack of rights for employees in the US, maybe they'll judge, correctly, that the United States is not France.

[lavendertook]

Just one more thing about the majority of US workplaces that just doesn’t really work.