I work in a position surrounded by women, and most of them get very excited at the idea of doing "games" or creating "fun themed events" and all of that shit. I avoid participating as much as possible because it's all very juvenile and sterile. It just made me think that all of HR, the "creating a fun atmosphere," the forced "fun" activities that leadership thinks will "boost morale," etc, is really just the dying breaths of a suppressed maternal instinct. Whether or not they have children, it doesn't matter, as the fact that they are working instead of spending all of their time with their children unconsciously breaks them. Women have infantilized the workplace and demand a corporate environment that replicates the mother-child relationship dynamic simply because they have no other outlet for their maternal instinct. It's sad and pathetic.
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I won't dodge a chance to shit on women, but I feel its less that and more of a "we gutted morale, how can we prevent workers from going Postal without spending money?" issue.
Everytime I've been forced to set up one of those gay things, it was entirely to "boost morale" and keep people happy. Whether it was to prevent union forming or people just outright quitting or becoming full disgruntled.
Its literally just that meme about corporate responding to demands for better pay with "damn nigga, here" and a pizza party.
But did it ever actually boost morale?
Depends on what we were forced to do.
Mandatory huddles and talks? Nah, everybody was always miserable and just went through the motions. Fortunately we never had to do the dances or other team building exercises you see around, it was rarely bigger than round table therapy sessions.
Free food and just hanging out for a bit? Yeah it did do wonders in getting everyone laughing and less miserable for the shift. It wasn't a long term solution to anything, but sometimes just sanding off the edges of a really bad day can average out to a less angry employee.
As horrific as it sounds to say out loud, corporate and I/O Psyche research isn't wrong when it believes that people will accept less pay with more pizza parties. And since in my time in middle management I couldn't do shit about the hours, pay or work being handed down, I could at least keep my employees from wanting to die everyday and quitting on me by fighting to get them free hot food.