Wasting a day on management bull

The new term starts next week so it's rather busy at work. Apparently that means it's also the perfect time for management to decide we need a team-building event with the school we'll be merging with in a year's time! So myself and fifty members of academic, admin and technical staff spent today considering the journey metaphor as a means to coping with the merger ... madness! We apparently surprised the hired management consultant with our cynicism and could have achieved a similar level of networking over morning coffee or evening beer, either of which would have saved money, time and effort all round. Ho hum...