Work schedules mandatory 'fun meeting' during unpaid lunch: 'I think morale actually dropped more after that'

As Liz Lemon once said, "Ain't no party like a Liz party 'cause a Liz party is mandatory." And this struck a chord with a nation because it revealed something about the nature of mandatory parties. That mandatory parties are not fun. The fun of a party is that you're choosing to be there. You think you might have a good time, so you willingly surrender some of your free time in exchange for the chance. And you can leave at any point. A mandatory party is not a party, it's a meeting… or a hostage situation. 

This doesn't stop some workplaces from implementing these events, though. Employers get it in their heads that this is a good idea, and then they subject everyone to it. Usually, though, they have the decency of offering them during working hours (aka you're getting paid to be there). That's not what happened in this story, though. No, in this story, these employees were basically paying to party. All for an event that they were resisting in the first place. 

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