Damian and I have been discussing corporate ‘team bonding’ activities - you know the kind - you’re locked in a room and have to make a skyscraper out of paperclips and string, or go orienteering somewhere dreadful in the Brecon Beacons and try not to die of hypothermia, stuff which wastes the time of millions of workers (as well as lining the pockets of consultants) every year. We see nothing wrong in the good old-fashioned going down the pub routine, which mercifully seems to be free of management bullshit so far, although it can only be a matter of time money-for-old-rope merchant tries and turn that into some special consultant’s service. Presumably they’ll try to package it in some wank Mission Statement - during an idle moment I came up with:

“We endeavour to foster intra-personnel connectivity through traditional native methods in off-site specialized social team-building centres; combining networked proactive communication on a real-time, face-to-face basis, with hands-on consumption of refreshing aqueous solutions, fulfilling our aim of leveraging short-term value-added empowerment.”

No doubt someone in the Brown Economy will latch onto this soon…