Lame "morale boosting" stuff at work

[Sephiroth]

Every job I've had in my adult life has had one of these. In my current job it's a wheel of fortune type deal where we get to spin it fir a chance at utterly useless prizes like a new headset-as if they didnt have a closet full of the damn things. But I suppose that is better than last year when we got turns to stand in a giant tube and grab play money that was being blown around, and the amount we grabbed would be translated into "points" that we could redeem for prizes-never minding that the few prizes worth wanting required more points than anyone could possibly grab.

How about the rest of you?

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

We just got a deal with Pop TV, shugs

[edgestar]

I don't remember my job having one, but, since everyone there has helped me when I was in sick, or just to help me when it gets busy, I've brought in donuts and coffee for everyone maybe not a morale booster, but to show my appreciation

[Limity (BLM)]

It feels like my employer wrote the book on this nonsense. We have four separate committees devoted to employee morale and improving the facility, blah blah blah. Problem is, it's 90% out of touch morons that make up these committees. They quickly become self important with inflated views of themselves and their importance.

And with an equally out of touch and dangerously stupid leadership, that refuses to address the actual problems, nothing gets done.

[Spider2024]

They recently held a 'Guess which employee this tattoo belongs to' contest. Not sure what the prize was though.

[Deleted]

I've got the lamest ever. In an effort to help us focus more on the client they gave literally every employee a creepy two sided statuette thing of a silhouetted generic looking person with the words "The Client" across the front of them. One side was a male "client" and the other was a female "the client" in business suits. They weren't even statuette's proper either, just an image inside a flat rounded plaque type thing.

Creepy as f*** and just a bizarre waste of money.

[ERON]

Every year when we come back from our summer break, we have to do this stuff. Last year, they had us in random pairs juggling ping pong balls. The year before that, we were in teams trying to build towers out of toothpicks and marshmallows. The year before that, we took turns walking around blindfolded while a random partner steered us from behind. And so on.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

We have a Christmas raffle where two of the prizes are gift cards to the store

[Shai]

It's actually not lame but my husbands job just went paint-balling they even made the teams associates vs. managers

[4TheGlory]

I love it. Paid to do pretty much nothing.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

Disney did a lot of this shit. I hated it. Came off as pandering and infantile.They even had, like, coins, they'd give you if you got guest compliments and could put in machines with gifts like Snickers bars or movie tickets.

I'll never forget I was getting my yearly review and a manager was like "How do you prefer to get praise for good work, announcing it to the break room or giving you-.." and I cut him off and said "Don't. If I did a good job, that's reward enough. Also, money".

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

In my last job the manager gathered everybody in one room as got us to play pass the parcel and musical chairs. Most people refused.

In my current job they try to arrange things like paintballing, bowling, Escape Room, and those gladiator game things where you just smack the shit out of each other with big foam batons. None of them have actually gone ahead, because nobody wants to actually pay to do team building stuff.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

At my current job, I'm known as the demoralizer due to me being a smart-ass with many of my coworkers and salesmen. They know I do it in jest and that in the end, I go above and beyond to take care of everyone...but dammit if I do not have fun putting these guys down on a regular basis.

One guy told me: "You are the only person in this company who can call someone a gutter-slut and get away with it!"

["Gentleman" AJ Powell]

They supposedly give a gift basket to the best customer service person at my work monthly, but they haven't in the near-year I've been working there.

Which is bullshit, because it'd totally be me.

[ICBM]

I'm military so morale is relative to sleep and lack of yelling. But lame attempts at morale building? Umm...running 5k of us running 5 miles in 20 degree temp (it's Georgia that is apocalyptic here). Another lame attempt I'd say beating us over the head with six hrs of resiliency training then playing volleyball and eating baked beans and burgers

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

I dunno. I just think they're trying to make me fat what with all the free pizza and cake days we have.

[Cyno]

The only kind of "morale boosting" thing I did at jobs was going out to dinner or drinks after a long shift with managers and coworkers. A favorite of ours (well, for those of us over 21) was Hooters on cheap wings and beer nights. It worked because it was spontaneous and entirely optional. We bonded organically as comrades-in-arms without it being felt forced upon.

[Unaffiliated]

The good thing about this sort of thing is that it's perhaps a sign that the company is in decent financial shape; at least decent enough to waste money on such activities.

We don't have those at my workplace.

[G✇JI☈A]

I don't mind if they involve pizza and/or a BBQ

Hate the ones that think a good way to raise confidence is to take me out of my comfort zone .. Things like speaking in front of all the other employees, or singing.

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What about Pearl points?