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Guess I'm the lone person on here who likes Titanic. And I do mean "likes" as in present tense. I own it and will watch it from time to time. I thought it was excellent.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
Guess I'm the lone person on here who likes Titanic. And I do mean "likes" as in present tense. I own it and will watch it from time to time. I thought it was excellent.
Clearly your taste in movies is wrong. You should work on fixing it.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
Guess I'm the lone person on here who likes Titanic. And I do mean "likes" as in present tense. I own it and will watch it from time to time. I thought it was excellent.
Clearly your taste in movies is wrong. You should work on fixing it.
Are you sure about that? I love Serenity. ;)
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Originally posted by Zeek:Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
Guess I'm the lone person on here who likes Titanic. And I do mean "likes" as in present tense. I own it and will watch it from time to time. I thought it was excellent.
Clearly your taste in movies is wrong. You should work on fixing it.
Are you sure about that? I love Serenity. ;)
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Your move smarty pants.
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Originally posted by RugBug:Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
Guess I'm the lone person on here who likes Titanic. And I do mean "likes" as in present tense. I own it and will watch it from time to time. I thought it was excellent.
Clearly your taste in movies is wrong. You should work on fixing it.
Are you sure about that? I love Serenity. ;)
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Your move smarty pants.
Variety is the spice of life.
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Okay, I kinda liked the movie leading up to the realization that the ship is done for. It is honestly a good period piece that warps and breaks the riveted steel sheets of history a bit.
I love Sharpes Rifles. there is no way the show is historically accurate. But it is a fun period piece with violence and adventure and romance.
Yeah, I'm kind of a softy.
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bah work killed my spirit.
I swear this company should just give up. Back when I was hired they had "morale events". Each department or a group of departments had a budget to do small stuff like go bowling for an afternoon.
That budget has been shrinking and shrinking. From what I hear it's zero these days. Which sure seems to be true, because we just got an email for a morale event. Join us for a moive and get together. Pay for your own movie ticket and then go across the street to a restaurant where you can pay for whatever you want. So....you made the plans and that's it? Wonderful. OK I'll give them a little credit for it being planned for a Friday at 2:30. So at least we can get away from the office.
Anyway to convert this to a ponder do you guys think half assed things like this are actually worse than nothing at all? Personally I do. To me they're just pointing a big neon sign at the fact that morale isn't worth anything to them. I guess I never expected morale events in the first place, but when you start out paying for them you set a precedent.
Plus there's no way I'd pay to see this movie. "How to train your dragon"? I had to go to imdb to even find out what it was. Kind of annoying that they choose an animated movie just to be as safe as possible. This isn't a family event. We're all adults. How about an adult movie? Kids movie = No thanks.
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I don't really have a problem with events like that for work. I mean whats the difference between going out with your work friends after work to a movie and dinner like what you described?
Plus anytime my old work did a "gathering" thing it was never "out" it was always in a conference room with food stuffs. But it was still at work. I think it would be sort of fun to see how people are outside the office.
And while I have no plans to see "How To Train Your Dragon" there are a bunch of kid movies I liked that I saw at the theaters like "Monsters vs Aliens" and I wanted to see the re-release of "Toy Story" in 3D.
I of course am talking about jobs where I actually liked the people I work with. Maybe if I didn't I'd feel differently?
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I agree with you, Zeek. If precedent was company-paid fun...it should remain company paid fun. If economic times means the company can't pay anymore, they should acknowledge that. A memo (did you get the memo?) stating that while the company can no longer financially sponsor these morale events, they are still encouraged is a great idea and would alleviate some of the bitterness.
My company did something similar a number of years back, abolishing the company picnic. Now, this was before the current financial climate and we were told that the money set aside for the picnic would be distributed in different way. Well, it was the first year but hasn't been in successive years. Like many companies, they pocket the savings without passing it on (yes...I'm a little bitter that I run what was a four person department with two people and I didn't get a raise. I'm savings them tens of thousands a year, but nothing has gotten passed along.)
BTW, I like the animated movies...but would never pay to see one in the theater. Ever. They just aren't my cop 'o' tea...'course I do like Titanic. ;)
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Them choosing the movie for us is the first issue. The fact that I work with a bunch of socially awkward nerds is another issue. Now I'm not saying I'm some social dynamo either, but I wouldn't choose to be in a group of friends consisting just of people like me.
Basically it smacks of "We need to do a team building exercise. What's the cheapest idea we can come up with?"
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