Work icebreaker activity

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 17:47

At work on Friday me and my team (13) were in a meeting room. Near the end the manager said we are going to do this activity. The manager and the team leader had gone through everyones social media and made presentation out of the images but obscuring the face so you had to guess who it was. Afterwards the original image was presented to everyone.

I wasn’t best pleased with this and felt it was quite invasive.
Has anyone else had a similar situation?

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 17:51

But I'm only friends with the manager, no one else in the team.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 17:58

Maccapacca said:
Lighten up dude

Maybe i should but it just didn’t feel right to me, i’m close with a couple of people on the team but not everybody which is why i felt a bit uncomfortable.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 18:04

Efour said:
Private profile

It is but i just happen to be friends with the manager.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 18:17

Efour said:
Sloppy

Tell me about it, poor move on my part.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 19:32

.Lethal said:
Unfriend your boss.

If you had such a problem with it why didn't you say something in the first place? Are you that much of a ***** you need to come and vent to us instead?

Well this is a discussion forum so yes i am sharing my experience here.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 20:47

builder22 said:
were the other 12 all friends with the manager on facebook too? (or just had a public profile?)

Not sure, think he got the others from instagram and public fb profiles.

Bassmansam · 29 Sep 2019 at 21:07

dowie said:
But that is the thing, you being friends with the manager doesn't really matter there - your profile picture is still publicly accessible regardless.

It wasn’t my profile pic.