That is so true!

*L* at nothing. :) yeah, that's one of those rather insensitive emplty gestures that's left over from the 50s in the minds of employers. Like HR or the CEO never bothered to actually *look* at the company and the employees and maybe, I don't know, the current decade and see things have changed. ;)

I used to work in an agency that had mandatory fun time every Friday which they called something like Spirit Hour or something. Basically a forced happy hour at 4pm. Which used to piss off the design department from the start because we all had a lot more work to do (our schedule was such that we couldn't wrap up the day at 4pm), so this forced "fun" meant we were going to have to stay even later on a Friday night, postponing any semblence of an actual life and plans we might have for the weekend.

However, to add insult to injury the best part was what was served at these functions: alcohol, dairy and meat. Now, the design department was filled with people in their 20s and early 30s, generally alt culture, in other words not traditional beer-and-football crowd like the other departments. Few drank, many didn't ingest dairy, and most were vegetarian. So there'd be a group of us awkardly standing there with literally a cup of water and a stalk of celery (grabbed from the plate fo buffalo wings) every single week because those were the only things we could find that we could eat, painfully waiting for the damn hour to end so we could get back to work and get the hell out.

This happend week after week and the management never seemed to notice. Even after I said something about it nothing changed. Which just made the gesture seem like some kind of punishment in the end. ;)