Team building is dumb and worthless…. have no idea why companies waste their time and money on them.
We split into groups and sat around a table one time writing about our feelings on pieces of paper, then sharing our "findings" with the rest of the group. The questions ranged from what was going on the last time you felt really happy to name an accomplishment that you were extremely proud of. (One guy said the time I kicked my drug habit).
After about 5 seconds of this crap, I knew it was bullsh!t and my body language (probably more so my mouth) let everyone else know what I thought about it. They finally just kicked me out of the group session as I became more and more vocal about how dumb it was to discuss one's feelings in front of people you barely knew.
I was throwing out bullsh!t answers anyway after hearing the guy say the time I quit drugs, so every subsequent offering I made to the group was more and more outrageous and made up and these idiots wrote it down anyway.
Team building? More like now I know all your deepest darkest secrets and I'm disgusted by you.
This is the time I had an epiphany and realized most people are sheep and will do anything you tell them. I was always skeptical about how cults could form. Why would people let others manipulate them like that? Well, this exercise put those doubts to rest permanently.