Whole day of work wankery tomorrow, give me strength.

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I have an 'away day' at work tomorrow. The whole Department in a room together 9am-5pm for the first time since autumn 2019.

Since our last 'away day', several new members of staff have been appointed and, mostly, shown themselves to be absolute arseholes. Two of them in particular are completely insufferable - think speaking for the sake of speaking at any opportunity, wokery pokery to the point of cringe, mask zealot Twitter warrior types.

One of these areholes is leading a session tomorrow on 'equality and diversity issues'. She has form for bullying.

Since Covid I've gotten used to getting on with my own work without crossing paths with most of my colleagues. I've avoided all in-person, whole-department activities for three years. It's been heaven.

Please give me the strength to survive tomorrow's horror show.

GC I’m sorry
I have sort of been there but it was a few years back, I bet it’s worse now. I freelance and I want a permanent job again but this really puts me off. I always work for large organisations. Maybe smaller ones are better?

OP if you are learning capitals, then John Finnemore can help with Europe

m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Oxg9zPUBE

Gosh this thread has made me laugh (hollow and belly laughs in equal measure!)

My organization loves an away day like this. Often throws in a creative break out or two to completely head fuck everyone out of catatonic boredom. Workshopping your 10 year diversity goals then presenting it back with a pack of plastic farm animals some sequins and a shoe.

Hope you’ve retreated safely under a duvet now OP.