Hi, looking for advice, legal or practical, on whether I can ask to be excused from a team building event?
Long story short, I work in a team of 8, there were incidents this year and 2 of the team, who work on the same area of the business together, really showed their true colours. They've shown themselves to be conniving, self serving, pushy, defensive when confronted, rude and to top it off they're both really shit at their jobs, not performing and damaging the brand reputation. These incidents have caused a split down the team, we've never received an apology for their behaviour and we avoid working with them on anything where possible. I also took the brunt of this behaviour numerous times.
The CEO is organising a team building event for early next year. A full day of emotional intelligence bullshit and learning how to 'speak each others language'. I really don't want to do this. It will make me incredibly uncomfortable and anxious and I just want to come in and do my job.
Can I ask to be excused from this? I will very likely be the only one.