I had to do a team building thing like that except we were given a list of people who were stranded, and had to decide who to save first (implication being time was running out and the people we left until last could well die.) Totally destroyed my respect for most of my colleagues. One of them decided all the people with children should be saved (because breeding makes you more important?) and another thought the entrepreneur was most deserving of life because he was driven. So yeah, great team-building...
TMW whe. You are going crazy for lack of coffee I need coffee... coffee coffee coffee No coffee makes Link a crazy whale. No coffee makes Link a crazy whale. No coffee makes Link a crazy whale. No coffee makes Link a crazy whale. No coffee makes Link a crazy whale. No coffee makes Link a crazy whale.
Clearly you save the richest and/or most attractive so that they can properly express their gratitude
I think the argument for the choldren thing would be the grief damage done to the children. And potential deficit of care, what if they're a single parent? Who looks after the children?
What if the childless person is the sole caretaker of an aging or ill parent? Who will take care of them? What about the grief of non-children loved ones left behind? If a child is small enough, they may not remember the parent at all and experience no grief at all, while the parents or spouse/partner of a childless person might be devastated and never move past their grief. @Tenderiser, that is a horrible exercise. Asking people to compare the worth of one person't life against another's under the guise of making the team stronger is almost guaranteed to have the opposite effect. It's just divisive from the get-go. I'm glad I just had to debate the merits of Crisco and steel wool with my colleagues, though I readily admitted I'd probably be the first to die - I've never even been camping!
Deciding the worth of specific lives is certainly complicated. I was just presenting the reasoning there. There's no real right answer. This excercise does seem like a good way to make grudges between colleagues. Hardly "team-building" to encourage thinking about favouritism.
Some of my colleagues honestly seemed to think like that! Disturbing. I'd be the first to die, too - one of the joys of having diabetes. Even if I had a full vial of insulin with me, I'd only last a few weeks. It was a ridiculous exercise. Funnily enough, it was bugging me during the whole day that I'd read the trainer's notes before. I googled, and found she'd copied a Wikipedia page verbatim and presented them as her training handbook. I think the company only paid her travel expenses in the end...
TMW you have to escalate things further and further, and come to the realization that things are just getting more and more macabre as a result.
That's the stupidest team building exercise I've ever heard of. Why don't y'all just pitch each other out of a rowboat and see who drowns first?
That moment when you lose a week's worth of ukulele practice because you sliced open the tip of your index finger and somehow managed to forget that you actually strum the ukulele with your thumb. Fail.
Wouldn't have worked in this case. The plaster strips holding my finger together would have made it hard to hold on to. And I don't get along well with picks. Also, that youtube video... WTF. How anybody could consider that sort of thing music is beyond me.
I was just trying to helpful. I am sorry it was less than a useful suggestion. Death Metal, it is like the third or fourth major sub-genre of Metal. Trust me there is way worse than that out there.
Sorry if I came across as moody then - that really wasn't my intention. I actually think it's weird the way I don't get along well with picks. From what I've heard, most people seem to find it much easier to strum with one than without. But I'm completely the opposite. I don't even understand why.
And for some reason, he just can't figure out how to stop putting holes in his equipment. It's really very strange.
TMW you want to describe your character's crush, but everything you come up with sounds cheesy and stupid.