Excessive work retreats

[Anonymous]

Why do you want the boat?

Way back I had a really good budget and I had two of you working for me. They made ever lunch, drinks, ordering breakfast or conference intolerable. Even to point we get a new hire we take then to lunch, I would pay, ouch nice place at lunch time right by office and even let them place but it was never ending complaints. They made it clear I am hearvworj only.

The two left and it was like a cloud left the department. I even took the dept on a week long Internal conference in Europe, went to a winery, organized fun things with co workers, started quarterly staff lunches. Out of town coworkers came we took them out to dinner. Those two were in my dept four years. By time they left we stopped all group activities.

I would love your job.

[Anonymous]

I bet the CEO is having an affair with an executive and I also bet the company is about to be sold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you want the boat?

Way back I had a really good budget and I had two of you working for me. They made ever lunch, drinks, ordering breakfast or conference intolerable. Even to point we get a new hire we take then to lunch, I would pay, ouch nice place at lunch time right by office and even let them place but it was never ending complaints. They made it clear I am hearvworj only.

The two left and it was like a cloud left the department. I even took the dept on a week long Internal conference in Europe, went to a winery, organized fun things with co workers, started quarterly staff lunches. Out of town coworkers came we took them out to dinner. Those two were in my dept four years. By time they left we stopped all group activities.

I would love your job.

I read this twice and it is really good soup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you want the boat?

Way back I had a really good budget and I had two of you working for me. They made ever lunch, drinks, ordering breakfast or conference intolerable. Even to point we get a new hire we take then to lunch, I would pay, ouch nice place at lunch time right by office and even let them place but it was never ending complaints. They made it clear I am hearvworj only.

The two left and it was like a cloud left the department. I even took the dept on a week long Internal conference in Europe, went to a winery, organized fun things with co workers, started quarterly staff lunches. Out of town coworkers came we took them out to dinner. Those two were in my dept four years. By time they left we stopped all group activities.

I would love your job.

Is this English? I highly doubt you had two of me working for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet the CEO is having an affair with an executive and I also bet the company is about to be sold.

I don’t know about an affair, but my position is such that there’s no way I wouldn’t know if the company is about to be sold.

[Anonymous]

This whole situation is super weird. With a CEO that insists on this type of wasteful spending, I'd be nervous if this company is actually a legitimate company.

[Anonymous]

OP, since we haven't figured out how to solve this for you, my one request is that you please come back and tell us how it's going.

[Anonymous]

Steve Jobs was a huge fan of these "retreats"

When he was at NEXT they were insane.

Great for me though. He used to fly out family members as well. We had some awesome trips. DH hated the frequency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole situation is super weird. With a CEO that insists on this type of wasteful spending, I'd be nervous if this company is actually a legitimate company.

It's definitely a legitimate company (again, my role is such that I can confirm this).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, since we haven't figured out how to solve this for you, my one request is that you please come back and tell us how it's going.

I appreciate everyone letting me continuing to vent!

[Anonymous]

Back from retreat. Finance group gingerly brought up the topic of our insane travel budget, and CEO has decided to do layoffs rather than ax the retreats. Thankfully I’m not one of them (yet anyway). Can’t make this stuff up.