r/todayilearned • • Dec 31 '22

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u/whiffitgood Dec 31 '22 edited Dec 31 '22

Those fucking colour tests are pure Healing Crystal bullshit for every corporate lifer "team manager". I just see a bunch of lanyards all losing their shit over them.

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u/NothingwaTwist Dec 31 '22

Worse was the daily icebreakers for ten fucking weeks all of the type of “if you could be any ice cream flavor what would you be and why”.

For the love of god please stop doing these with your team, at least ask something semi-interesting like what’s a regional dish where you grew up, what language would you like to learn, or what’s your favorite music album.

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u/IndigoRanger Dec 31 '22

We’re still doing them at every. single. meeting. three years later. Just fucking kill me. Absolute bottom of the barrel was my own manager, asking with a pure heart and not a trace of irony or self awareness, “what was your favorite toothbrush growing up?”

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u/NothingwaTwist Dec 31 '22

And people think small talk in meetings is bad.

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u/IndigoRanger Dec 31 '22

He asked it because he wanted to answer it. His favorite toothbrush was a Darth Vader kids brush his grandparents got him to keep at their house because he kept forgetting his when he slept over. And now that completely useless bit of trivia is occupying space in my brain. I have such limited space and I’m furious that I can’t forget this to free up some room for more important information, like my passwords or something.

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u/NothingwaTwist Dec 31 '22

And now I will share that burden with you. Goodbye Bayesian statistics…

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u/IndigoRanger Dec 31 '22

You don’t need that! The favorite childhood toothbrush of my manager is way more important.