I have consistently been a little jealous of my sibling and her task.
She is one of those corporate types that travels the world on a yearly basis and I cherish hearing about her trips, however i had to laugh when she called the other day and she was agitated over her latest adventure, apparently, her management team decided that they should all travel to the mountains for a corporate “bonding” experience; This trip involved laboring with high elements, rock climbing, and backpacking overnight through the woods.
None of this seemed up my sibling’s alley and I couldn’t imagine her in that environment. Her idea of roughing it was a hotel room without room service. She said that most of trip was at least honest and she did make some new friends, but, there was none of the creature comforts that she was used to; She said that they didn’t even have electricity in the so called cottages and she had to drink Dunkin Donuts Latte that was boiled over a fire. She said that her roommates and she did anything but bond as they argued over who had to get up and put wood on the fire so that they would not be freezing at night and when my sibling wanted to open the windows for fresh air while in the day, one of the others said that it bothered her allergies. This trip had the exact opposite effect that upper management had intended. The lack of an Heating and A/C system, bugs, sore muscles, and lack of sleep, only wanted to make everyone get as far away from each other as possible, then my sibling was never so cheerful to get apartment to her comfortable bed and Heating and A/C system.