'Teambuilding' at the weekend

If he wants team building that much, he can do it Monday to Friday!

It's a non working day - why on earth would they expect anyone todo this in their own personal time, unpaid?

Must be a shocking company if this is the level of competence at management level.

Just curious for those commenting - presumably it’s also okay to say no to one on a weekday if it requires multiple hours of travel and staying overnight to get there (in your own time, either weekend or evening). Since anything beyond the normal hours is your own time? Even if offered compensation you can argue against it.

I wouldn't go if on a weekend

Absolutely fucking not would I be sacrificing a weekend day for an activity I have to spend 4 hours travelling for and then cover my own refreshments.

Genuinely can't imagine my office ever suggesting something like this. Once someone put the three peaks challenge up as a good one, after much guffawing it was nixed!

This was my first thought. Well my second actually, after 'Hell no!' to any sort of team building nonsense.

Do you have any friendly colleagues you can create a little union with and say no?

read your contract carefully. They can’t fire you. If you are sick on the day then they can’t do anything as they aren’t paying you anyway as it’s not a work day. This will create more team drama as the people that are there will resent the people that got out of it. Just say no. It’s a complete sentence

Well, my first thought was 'fuck that shit', but it may not go down amazingly well! 🤣

is you boss taking the piss? Team building on a weekend? Hahahaha

if one of the ‘troublesome’ people is not attending it will only cause more issues in the team and it won’t fix any that you have already.

also sounds like your boss is a massive part of the problem if they think this is an acceptable solution to whatever the problem is.

Your boss is a deluded fool.

If its on the weekend I would expect a day in lieu otherwise I would decline.

Sunday team building two hours away? Not a chance in hell! Mind you, I avoided them like the plague wherever possible after attending one years ago that descended into an actual punch up!

I’d go if it sounded like something I’d enjoy, I didn’t have other commitments and I would get a day of in lieu. But otherwise, no. And I wouldn’t waste a second on feeling guilty or worried about it. It’s bloody cheeky of your work to try and solve team building problems on your time instead of their own.

I might consider it if I was being paid overtime. Otherwise it's a hard no from me.

Absolutely not. On a Sunday? Not during your usual working hours?! Jokers 😅

If it's outside of work time it has to be good enough that you actively want to attend. Otherwise you absolutely don't need to go.

Nope.

I wouldn't. You're only making a rod for your own back. If you feel uncomfortable, have a ready prepared excuse.

We have identified bullying in our team (anonymous nhs survey) and one suggestion (ironically from the main bully - I think she’s totally under her behaviour is not normal or okay) was an escape room on a Saturday… I mean who wouldn’t want to be locked in a room with their bully on their day off work?! 🙄

Did we timeslip back to the mid 1990s? I dislike the amount of time I have to spend with most of my colleagues through the week, the thought of yet another nonsensical team building thing of any kind makes me shudder. But at the weekend at that?? Dream on. It never helps resolve the personality clash issues anyway, though I must confess to being tempted by a bit of axe throwing, say, with some of my current colleagues...

Thing is, many people now have childcare or caring or other responsibilities at the weekends, only a 20 something over ambitious Muppet manager or an andropausal 50 something would think this was a good idea.

So this is considered necessary because of the actions of two people, but one of those two people is not doing it?

This sounds to me rather like a small snapshot of what Rishi's nutty National Service plan would have been: all the young adults already out at work, volunteering or doing sports/club/community/other positive and worthwhile activities will be taken away and forced to divert their time, to make sure they don't suddenly turn into hooligans; whilst the hooligans for whom the decent youngsters are getting the sweeping stereotypical blame, and for whose circumstances the NS activities are specifically designed, will just find whatever ways they can not to bother.

At any rate, even if both of the troublemakers were attending, do they really need the rest of you to give up your Sunday and be there as well, just so they can learn not to make trouble for you with you all in situ? Could they not just get dummies or dolls with each wearing a badge with one of your names on, and practise not saying and doing nasty things to them instead?

Ha ha ha ha…

I work in HR.

Wouldn't even consider this. Hard no from me.

I hate team building days and the ones that I haven't been able to wriggle out of have made no difference to the team anyway. I can't for one moment think that a team building day is going to help 2 horrible people become less horrible .

This sounds awful.I used to hate this team building rubbish and once said I reserved the right to be an individual and not hand over all my work for someone else,usually the exercise initiator, to copy and claim for their own.
Retired now thank heaven.