Company Picnic

[bec_87rb]

Our group at work is about 500 souls or so, and there was a picnic to celebrate our 100th year of existence yesterday. D kindly agreed to come along as human credential, smile and shake hands, and I took pictures

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[chhinnamasta]

I hope they brought out some good food and alcohol for the event? Anything, other than socializing, planned for entertainment?

Did you notice a particular age bracket on those close-ups of men? I suppose if your workplace is male dominated, that could explain the skew. Lord knows, in any place I've ever worked, it would be an exclusively male photo shoot. Which lone female colleague warrants a close up?

[bec_87rb]

Actually, it was the Director? She is so used to being "public" I guess, that she automatically stopped and posed. I should have been closer to get a really good photo of her. The men were thirty-ish to sixty-ish?

There was an abundance of good food, most of it brought potluck by the attendees. Management supplied grillables - hot dogs, veggie burgers, hamburgers, turkey burgers - but no booze. I think the park where the event was held had a rule about alcohol, and one of the guys was complaining about the paucity of even a lone beer. I told him we were hoping he was going to bring a hip flask.

[chhinnamasta]

Geez, management sounds a bit cheap, but you work for the government, don't you, so I suppose that's a good thing? Was attendance compulsory? I would feel a bit disgruntled if an employer expected me to show up during non-work hours, and I had to bring my own food to boot!

[bec_87rb]

Yes, good catch on that - no taxpayer money can go to parties for us. Managers have to fork over, or get a private donor, and we have had Christmas-type parties with wine and beers, courtesy of the bossmen and bosswomen. And not mandatory, but I got the definite feeling that if I failed to show, I was failing in my group spirit, after all, I completely blew off the group basketball game excursion. Blech. Spending my hard earned cash to see a sport I don't care about played by two teams I don't care about, packed cheek to jowl with colleagues I then have to see on Monday again. Nope, nope, nope. They'd have to have paid me. What is with all this sudden group spirit, anyway? Jeez.

I will say this - it was interesting to see some of these people not in a coat and tie. One high level manager I TOTALLY FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THE WHOLE PICNIC simply because he was dressed like someones Dad at their little league game. Sans tie, in a cap and shorts, I mistook him for someones roped-in husband. *Doh*