Sharon Lopez
Hello, my Virily friends!
Team building is one of the activities being conducted in any office to promote relationship and productivity of the employees. In the past, I used to facilitate such activities on different occasions. Though I don’t want to compare, I can say that our current activity didn’t achieve the purpose. It was probably because people who were in charge of the activity were not knowledgeable enough in handling such an event. I have done what I can do to help but I know that it was not enough.
My task was to post the activity and find the most suitable place based on regulations set forth by law. Being a Bid and Awards Secretariat, I know my roles and duties. I thought I was done with my task so I can relax on a Sunday which is the day of rest and supposedly a day to be given to myself and my family.
While attending the Holy mass, I received a message asking if I already had a tarp for the event. Wondering why I was messaged with such question, I replied politely that I don’t do the preparation of such. I know that the office has a group of employees who are preparing those things and they already have a contact where they could send the design and everything will be prepared. But the next message came unexpected, “Prepare a simple tarp and we’ll have it printed tomorrow.”
So, on Sunday evening instead of working on my online sites, I was obliged to prepare a tarpaulin design. Thanks to Canva! We have it printed in the morning and we go to the venue which is less than an hour ride from our home. I didn’t know there were other concerns related to the activity which the person in charge failed to address beforehand.
I don’t know what happened but I could not comment because the person who is supposed to prepare the things happens to have a higher position than me.
The place is beautiful and I just spend time taking photos of the place and sleeping in my room. Well, at least I was given a chance to take some rest and enjoy the view. I will be sharing these photos in my next posts.
On the final thought:
Just a simple question. I know some of us are employees too. Do you avoid office concerns during the weekend?
Thank you for reading.
Sharon Lopez
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I”m sure we can have a separate life outside our work.
I am of the view that office work should not disturb your personal life.
As a trainer and facilitator for training where one of them is team building, I must always ensure that training outside the working day must be agreed upon together or the program to be implemented will lack passion and enthusiasm.
Sometimes I don’t have a lot of time to myself but accept it. Caring for anyone with sickness or crippled is a full time job 24 hrs a day. I only hope that I remember to say “Thanks for small mercies..”
I think that it is important to leave a special place for work and personal life. Some extra work requires several minutes, and I do not see anything bad in it. But if a substantial time is needed, I always refuse to keep the balance.
That’s the reality of having a boss. But we can make acceptable excuses if we want. Like turning off our phone and social media accounts on weekends.
Its really hard to draw the line. However, being in HR I did not have too much of an option.
You are right but we can probably close all forms of communications during those days.
When I was still employed (now I am retired), I often worked at home (on Sundays, holidays, etc.)
I am waiting for the day that I could complete even the minimum requirement so that I could be eligible to receive a pension at age 60 or 65. If things don’t change, I will be forced to avail of the early retirement. I will just continue my social security insurance as a voluntary member. I only need three years to complete it.
You have similar conditions for retirement like us. The law changed this year. I was lucky and I could retire when I was 58 years old
I had such a job I had to work for weekends and holidays … so I was at home other days of the week … and even those days I was doing certain things for the job … I had such a job … if I I went to work from Monday to Friday for a weekend for the job, and I would take the weekend for myself and my family if I had
Thank you, Lado for sharing your thoughts. I only want the weekend to be devoted to myself and my family. In the coming days, I will turn off my phone and messenger so that I could also devote time to myself. I will only open my working sites.
And so that’s right, my dear friend … that’s my opinion
Nice blog Sharon, have a great week!
Thank you for dropping by, Carol. Wishing you the same.
I think i need to take break from work now since work work work , I am tied of it
Thank you for dropping by, Witty Feeds. Yes, everyone needs some break.
sometimes I feel like I am working at work, come home and start working again on home stuff.
Nice that you guys got to get away and celebrate the team!!!
Thank you, Doc for such a nice comment. Have a great day, always.
Ditto! I really need to take a break from work!
I hope you could. Working online is my break. I love this stuff so I don’t feel like working. It’s my stress reliever.
i do it before work (and at lunch sometimes like now). It is very relaxing.