The Team Retreat

It is workplanning season now in the office. Every team is supposed to go off on a team work retreat to consolidate this year's work, and plan for next year's.

However, with the budget cut for the year, we were only allocated S$15/head for a whole day retreat, so I decided to throw the usual go-to-external-venue-cater-food plans out of the window, and invite the team to my home instead, on my own hospitality.

We started in the morning where I prepared a huge-ass breakfast. I forgot to take any photos though :( I had fat pork sausages, bacon, mushrooms, eggs, tomotos, ciabatta bread and hash browns. I must have smelt like big breakfast when the team arrived =P

During the discussions we drank coffee and munched on chocolate and sweet red grapes. Part of the reason for the big breakfast was that my staff requested that we don't go back to 'work' after lunch ;) So we all agreed to have a big breakfast, work all the way through mid-afternoon, and have a late lunch.

I'm glad the idea worked out pretty well! None of us were hungry during the discussions, and when we eventually finished work, we headed out for food and delectable cakes.
I'm really glad for my team, and I'll miss them when I move out to a new job function sometime next year.