So the other day we had this meeting at work about employee courtesy or some crap like that. The motivational speaker they had for this training session put us
into two groups for an activity. He passed around labels to everyone in the group, and we had to stick the label on the forehead of the person sitting next to
us. You were never able to see what was written on the label that you received. The labels had things on them like, "Leader", "Ignore Me",
"Laugh at Me", "Argue With Me", etc. The speaker said that we had to roleplay planning the company picnic while treating everyone exactly
as their label suggests.
So after several minutes of watching my group laugh and argue and point and get pretty much nothing done, finally someone said they wanted to hear my opinion. I said, "I don't know what to do..." And everyone replied, "I agree. I don't know what to do either."
I immediately figured out that my label must say something like "Agree with me", so being the smartass that I am, I decide to have fun with this. I start saying things like, "We should have the picnic at midnight on the coldest day of the year and we should make fried worms and bugs be the main course."
After five minutes or so, the speaker stops the class and asks Group 1 what their plans for the picnic were. Somehow, they actually managed to work out that it would be in the parking lot and they'd have steak.
He asks our group and the "leader" says, "We're having fried worms."
The teacher burst out laughing and said he's been teaching this class for several years and that's the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
I can imagine why someone would think that's funny because they're probably thinking some really nonlinear process of arguing led to that, not that it was just the result of the smartass in the group figuring out what her label says.
So after several minutes of watching my group laugh and argue and point and get pretty much nothing done, finally someone said they wanted to hear my opinion. I said, "I don't know what to do..." And everyone replied, "I agree. I don't know what to do either."
I immediately figured out that my label must say something like "Agree with me", so being the smartass that I am, I decide to have fun with this. I start saying things like, "We should have the picnic at midnight on the coldest day of the year and we should make fried worms and bugs be the main course."
After five minutes or so, the speaker stops the class and asks Group 1 what their plans for the picnic were. Somehow, they actually managed to work out that it would be in the parking lot and they'd have steak.
He asks our group and the "leader" says, "We're having fried worms."
The teacher burst out laughing and said he's been teaching this class for several years and that's the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
I can imagine why someone would think that's funny because they're probably thinking some really nonlinear process of arguing led to that, not that it was just the result of the smartass in the group figuring out what her label says.
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