I woudl say just give up and let it be lame. The last big meeting Derris and I had to miss the entire UGA-Tennesee. They coudl have had free booze, drugs, and hookers and it would not have been any livelier.

I've never done anything that wasn't miserably cheesy. Except for a "team builder" once, where only the 5 of us in mgmt for the midwest got on one guy's boat and drank ourselves stupid all day watching boat races. That was Awesome, except the other 4 were HEAVY hitters, like Senator level, and after my 7th or 8th Coors I was getting downright stupid while they were just getting warmed up.

What type of company do you work for Kiev?

If your company makes or distribute products you might find The MIT Beer Game interesting. http://beergame.mit.edu/default.htm

We found it to be fun and educational and took away some good lessons on what works and what doesn't when managing supply chain issues.

edit: there is no actual beer involved in playing the game.

Fun at work is even less fun than work.

Mike the Margarita Maker
Strippers
both legal, forget the bosses

Remember that link to a girl who was calling her boss cheap behind his back and he heard? That's how memorable moments like that happen. I really don't see why every company doesn't have frequent liquid lunches -- that's when the employees really open up.

Unless they don't wanna know.