Around several weeks ago me and the rest of the class attended a 'team building' week at the new E3 Building at Springvale. At the start I was really excited to see the new building since I had heard a lot about it. There are a lot of computers with some great specs and a state of the art TV studio.
Unfortunately it wasn't anything like I thought it would be like. When we went in we were told that we had to be split into groups of 4 and we couldn't be with any of our class. Naturally. It then turned out that certain areas of the room were designated as zones. Each zone had about 8 groups or so. Then each zone had a zone leader. Each zone leader talked to us as if we were kids. This brought back memories of P7 and early secondary school.
Anyway the first task we had to do was create an idea for a children's toy using play-doh, weird wires and post its upon post its. We were then given briefs that we looked at and gave ideas on the post its as to make them better. One was about a nail salon wanting to improve their brand. It just seemed like we were being used for free to give these businesses new ideas. I didn't like it.
All the people in charge were constantly saying "You's are all adults" yet still treated us like children and made us do pointless things. I thought it would have been a better idea to team build with the students that we had recently met and will be working with for 2 years. But no that wasn't allowed.
To make matters worse we weren't allowed to work any of the computers or equipment and when given a tour of the building, the people doing it had no idea what any of the equipment was and didn't know how to work it. Turned out that the TV Studio was unusable.
It could have been a better experience had we been treated more maturely and the tasks been reworked to suit the career that we wish to work on.
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