Thursday, June 5, 2008

You. Be like that. Work is fun.

I sent an email to my brother to share my exasperation about time sheets, and how every time I complete one, I remember Office Space. I suppose I was poking a bit of fun at the perceived importance of the time sheet...ok, maybe they're necessary, but really...35 different time categories?

Anyhow, he had to one-up me and sent a description of his latest professional development course. Copied and pasted, I hope he doesn't mind. He's a pharmacist at an undisclosed location in the general Phoenix area...Here's Kal:

Have you heard of "FISH" philosophy??? It's based off of some fish
market in Seattle . . .
Basically, we all have to go to these brainwashing workshops where they
tell us that we have to be happy and love our jobs.
So we went to this little classroom, and they made us draw pictures of
our
Values:

Respect
Compassion
Collaboration
Excellence
Stewardship
Leadership
Integrity
Education
Accountability
Innovative

Notice that the values aren't exactly grammatically consistent?
Waaaaahahahaha. Innovative??? How bout innovation!!!!
So yeah, I had to pair up with a dude from housekeeping that didn't
speak a friggin word of English, and draw a picture of Stewardship.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
The funniest part of it was that another group had stewardship as well,
and they drew a picture of a stewardess! It was great. Then they said,
"Well, I'm not sure what our job has to do with airplanes, but I guess
it's good . . ."
Then, we watched a short movie about this fish market in seattle. It was
a bunch of high hippies throwing fish around the market having a blazing
wasted fun time.
Then we were told, "You, be like that. Work is fun."
Good times.

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