Team Building vs. Beer

Had a team building event yesterday - Quarterly in our corporate misspeak. Spent tons of money so that people could go out paddling on canoes / pseudo kayaks / paddle boats and splash each other, or do tug-of-war and 3-legged races on land. Now, trying to splash or capsize your corworkers isn't normally considered team building, nor is pitting half of your employees against the other half. But, at least they're moderately fun, vs. the made up games they have (lava logs, spider web) to try to encourage everyone to work together, and you're only competing against yourself.

But, even more interesting, a few of us just sat around and had a few pitchers of beers and hung out. Best team building event we ever had. Why? CherkyB would say it's the beer, and he'd be right. Beer provides the reason to sit around the table and talk to each other (vs. trying to kill each other). Beer - helping people sit around and talk for over 6000 years. And that's one of the reasons we're not just animals in pants. Beer. It's 8:30 am on Saturday, is it to early for a beer?