Ten years ago, I first found out about corporate games. I was ecstatic. I could play sports for free! And look how many options they have! This is totally worth using all of these exclamations!
Seriously. I was excited about it. I signed up for all of the attractive options: soccer, basketball, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, skeet shooting. When signing up, they also requested a t-shirt size. You mean I get a free t-shirt, too? How could this be anything be superb? I didn’t actually sign up for skeet shooting. Do they have that?
Over ten years (minus a few maternity/pregnancy breaks), these are the things that I learned about corporate games:
- Adults cheat
- I still have to work on my temper
- While Rebecca was in charge, they bought us really nice t-shirts
- It was a great way to meet others from the company
- It was not a great way to meet others from other companies
- It was a great way to make enemies from other companies
- Watch out for men playing coed soccer for other companies that have no qualms deliberately injuring women
- I don’t carry grudges
- Okay, maybe I do about men that deliberately injure women
- Ultimate Frisbee was amazing playing with this guy that could throw so well
- Men from other companies were always surprised when they played against athletic women
- The trophy for coed soccer was elusive
- One year, the women were asked to cut the men for the coed soccer team because so many signed up; that was awful
- There’s one particular person at the company that I would rather not play sports with
- That one particular person likes to sign up for the same sports as me
- When I first met Nathan, I had sports every night because it was corporate games season (he still dated me, in spite of the “crazy sports girl” aura)
- Every year, I wished I was more athletic, in better shape, and had less of a temper
- I became a nicer participant over the years
- I retired from coed soccer after holding a grudge because of a man that deliberately hurts women
- I’ll miss the free t-shirts
It’s not fair that you have equal smarts on the right brain and the left brain AND you’re athletic.
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