There's no "Ow!" in "team"

monshu warned me yesterday that he'll be home late two days this week because of mandatory "team building" at work. "I just hope it isn't gimmicky," he confided.

"What kind of team building is there that isn't gimmicky? I honestly can't think of anything."

Anyone?

To tell the truth, the term "team building" always makes me snigger. In our RPGs, this was a tongue-in-cheek euphemism for "singling out one of the members and beating the snot out of him". Sadly, the consultant his boss has hired is highly unlikely to share that definition.