To not keep a flipping ‘gratitude journal’

[Eastie77Returns]

New manager at work, from the US if that’s relevant, declared a few weeks back that she thought it would a great idea for the team to start keeping a gratitude journal. Not my cup of tea at all but I was wasn’t bothered as it was optional. Then journals arrived at our home addresses in the post, she’d ordered them for everyone

On our weekly team meetings she started asking volunteers to read journal entries aloud. When no-one volunteered, she picked people. A few colleagues ‘read’ clearly made up on the spot entries. When it was my turn I just said I’m not keeping the journal. I’m grateful for many things but I don’t write them down. She didn’t look happy and I’ve heard I’m now on her shit list for not being a team player or something. WIBU??!

[buddylicious]

I've just remembered this and it's made me laugh:

Years ago, a girl in my office would write an inspirational word of the week on an A4 piece of paper and stick it on the wall next to her desk. Her words were things like "determined" or "tenacious".

One week a different girl announced she was going to start doing this too. Her word of the week that she wrote out and stuck on the wall was "BOLLOCKS"!

[SarahBellam]

Definitely agree with choosing a poem or song lyrics. Could a few of you take a line or two each and do the whole song? Or you could take a theme - e.g. Gary Barlow songs - and each person has to be grateful for a song title. 'I'm grateful I have my boyfriend Back For Good' or 'I'm grateful that we live in which a Beautiful World'. It would at least be fun then. I agree that this is horribly invasive and inappropriate and I would absolutely hate it.

[ChannelLightVessel]

This is the bane of DD(13)‘s school life. We used to live in the US, so she had to do it every Thanksgiving: in Kindergarten, she was grateful for photosynthesis. Then in Year 6 the entire school had to contribute to a ‘book of positivity’, to combat lockdown blues. She wrote that it was positive that the pandemic had reduced carbon emissions.