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The Film Guide: Teambuilding II - Or The Story of My Life

This is my personal email. The views expressed here are mine alone, and not those of my employer. Teambuilding II: Or The Story of My Life I was recently involved in something called a Vertical Offsite . Now, since we were actually at my company’s headquarters for this event, I guess technically it was an on site. As for the Vertical, well, you’re guess is as good as mine. In any case, the essential part of any self-respecting corporate retreat is the all-important teambuilding event. Something that brings us all together and teaches us, once and for all, the supreme importance of functioning as one unit. So naturally this year they chose go-karting . After all there’s nothing like intense individual competition where it’s in everyone’s best interests to bump each other, push each other, crash into each other, sneak by during a caution, and get to the finish line before anyone else to drive the concept of self-sacrificing-for-the-greater-good collaboration h