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Redic. Anyway...
I keep stepping up and completely dominating these events at work because, honestly, no one else wants to or will even pretend to care. That's fine. They'd ruin everything anyway. Suck the fun right out of living - if they could, most of them would. So, what's the agenda this time? Embrace a more active lifestyle (because corporate is beginning to tire of all the fat asses on the payroll? Of course not.) because that will entitle us to longer, happier, and healthier lives. I can sugar coat anything, by the way. Seriously though, someone should have said something or staged an intervention years ago. Not the point, but this is:
I will be at a public park trying to encourage and motivate anyone who might show up into staying active for an entire hour this and every Thursday until I'm the only one who keeps showing up or the competition ends.
Wait. What? Another competition. Yes, reader. Another competition. We are a highly competitive corporation, both internally and externally. And once again I will be leading my team boldly into the great unknown of our new corporately mandated active lifestyles and group psychosis.
Yep. I'm looking very forward to regretting this whole ordeal. Although, it may assist me at meeting my goal of losing another 30 pounds which will have me happily under maximum safe skydiving weight. That'll be worth the circus I'm anticipating trying to ringlead this Thursday.
3 comments:
Yahoo!!! Do you get to post on the corp home page to track your progress? Definitely the man for the job -- Go Team Hurricane!!!!!
Yahoo!! Go Team Hurricane!!!!!
Yes, we can track our progress (by activity and time logged for each) either individually or in teams on a special web site, which is actually an addendum to our employee benefits web site since this is the brain child of the benefits department.
I've given up on trying to form a team since there are such rigid constraints for doing so. You can invite anyone who has registered for the program, as long as they haven't already joined another team or started their own. Also, once a team starts competing as a team, they can not accept additional members or reduce their membership if someone goes inactive due to personal injury or termination. Furthermore, the team system is so awkward to navigate and utilize that I'd rather just not even bother with it.
The team competition is a great concept and it seems to work wonderfully for those that have attempted it and been successful, but I think it needs tweaking before it's ready to be reimplemented next year.
Last year, it was all manual logging (On paper? Yep. Then we mailed it in. Yes, actual mail. Well, sort of. We used the corporate mailing system so no postage was used, but it was just as retro as snail mail.) and the focus was on personal weight loss (our version of The Biggest Loser) with no website support (The benefits website was still in the earliest development stages and didn't go live officially until earlier this year). I can't recall if you were able to pool achievements into teams last year. I doubt it. That doesn't work as well with the goal of weight loss as it does with time spent toward staying active.
I'm liking the innovations that we're pushing with the yearly wellness program/competition. This time next year, it'll be dead on and participation levels will finally be a decent percentage approaching total rather than just hit and miss with the majority of our employee base sitting on the bench and watching out of morbid curiosity.
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