Corporate Responsibility for the Modern Era
There are whispers and rumors about katagi’s firing. Employees shake their heads over their water when they speak of katagi: a fixture of days gone by that just always seemed to exist. How did katagi come to P. P. P. Co.? How were they even hired? These were questions never answered, and were to be never answered, given their firing. Rumor had it that at some point, katagi had wormed their way into P. P. P. Co. by currying John Smith’s favor, but there was no way they were anywhere close to John Smith’s circle now. They were just some employee who would say rude things to everyone and glare at people from above their cubicle.
An exposed electrical wire, frayed and precariously hanging near John Smith, was the cause of the firing; it had managed to give a mighty shock to an unknowing employee, necessitating an emergency ambulance to the nearest hospital. An enterprising colleague would then find a series of recipe cards (who uses those anyways, when you have your uPhone?) detailing an order for a set of pliers signed by none other than katagi.
katagi didn’t take the firing well.
“You’re only firing me to free up space for these newbies who don’t know a lick of anything, aren’t you!”
“Millennials, ruining everything – and now they’re replacing me?”
“We old folk are useless to you all, aren’t we? You don’t understand that we’re the life and soul of this company, we built this company from the ground up!”
“We were here since Day 1!”
As had become common procedure, security had come to escort katagi out. During an exercise in trust later in the hour, one employee would ask John Smith the story of katagi’s hiring, evidently pleased that the company grump had been fired. No more awkward glares during conference calls or meetings, no more silly calls down to IT on how to use a computer. Now new blood would flow in to occupy whatever role katagi had been mothballing for years.
John Smith would shrug and admit that he didn’t really remember the story. Maybe katagi was the cousin of a friend of a friend of his, or something. It’s been a while.
Another mystery for another day. But what wasn’t a mystery? The pliers.
katagi just needed to run to the hardware store after the retreat was over.
katagi was
fired! They were
George, an
employee of P. P. P. Co. ... from
some department, no one's quite sure, they were sort of always there in the company and no one really knows what they do but they have some kind of corporate immunity to firing that just ran out today I guess Hour 6 has begun. Hour 6 will end on July 13, 8pm PST.Please feel free to interact with other individuals during this time.
Today's activity is about teamwork. Teamwork is a skill applicable to many corporate roles, and in almost every job you will have to collaborate with all sorts of individuals.
Your optional activity for this phase is to draw what teamwork means to you. However, there is a catch: you must
all work together to draw this image, with each person drawing one line of whatever teamwork means to you and then passing it onto the next person. Any medium is accepted.
This activity can be extended beyond this phase if necessary.