Help Needed: Planning a daytime workday outing for coworkers.

Is there any other purpose besides interaction? How close is the group? Age range? How many of ya'll?

You can do volunteer stuff like cleaning up a plot of land, helping out elders or helping the evacuees. I'm sure there are sites for these things (United Way or something) but I don't know them.

Or an Astros game since I know they have some in the afternoon for the business folks.

 

Treasure's.

We've done it. Boosts "morale"

 

Seems like someone asked this about a year ago. I think a trip to a dog or horse track was the big winner.

 

Golf scramble & lunch in the clubhouse.

 

If it was summer and you weren't in Houston, I would say do what we used to do at UT-Austin and go tubing on the river for a day. Every year, we went to Prince Solms Park in New Braunfels and just went down the tube chute over and over all day. It's fun when you have 15 people making a train going backwards.

 

So that's Ferdinand's problem...he's not into the group thing?

 

Paintballing makes for a great team outing. It allows a lot of interaction and provides plenty of opportunity for people to work as a team.

 

If you can't get out that far you could always try Laser Tag as well.

 

I had a boss take our group to Dave and Busters a couple years back, was a good time. Are you planning to have alcohol as an option?

 

I still want to say that Paintballing is a better option. There generally isn't a whole lot of strategizing in Laser Tag. In Paintball, you get a look at the terrain and organize into smaller units and coordinate with other units. If you do it right, it's actually very much like a military operation.

Add that to being outdoors (come on, you're probably working indoors as an accountant and wouldn't it be fun to be outside for a change?) and the added reward of a more complex game, I think it's a way better team outing than Laser Tag.

 

http://www.track21houston.com/

Indoor carting at its best.

 

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