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Date: 15 July 2004 18:18:22
OK, hands up whose heart sank when you read the title? Why do people at work-related meetings and presentations insist on doing group work? Everybody hates doing it, including the managers and presenters when they were mere workers, but they just haven't got the imagination to think of anything more constructive and enjoyable to do which will be a million times more meaningful than having three huddles of people dotted around a room all wishing they were doing something else.
I'm afraid I have to confess: after this morning's meeting, when they said "Now we're going to get YOU to do some work, let's all get into groups...", I made my excuses and left. I really couldn't face it. I endured 3 years of group work when I did nurse training. I endured another year when I did health visitor training. And since I've been qualified as both, just about every sodding training day has included group work. The only thing more soul-sapping than groupwork is role play. Note to educators: role play and group work are of the devil. Please please stop inflicting them on us. Pleeeeeeeaaase. Pretty please with knobs on. Just get them to stop before I lose the will to live.
In other news, I went to see Shrek 2 last night. I don't think it was as consistently funny as the first one - it took quite a while to get into its stride I thought - but for the last third of the film (from the Mission Impossible bit onwards) I laughed like a drain. Worth it just for those last classic 20 minutes or so - go see!
What was very bizarre was before the film started when we were watching the ads, one of my friends suddenly leapt out of her seat squawking "That's Rick!" It turned out one of the actors in one of the adverts sings in the same choir as her. Small world.