Shooting the boss, as team building exercise

How did this happen, play "video games" as exercise "Team-building". That sounds something that Google would apply in there "Room for write plans´s, how we take over the world." Nothing bad with that unless you have some bad plans for every speices on the planet.

I had some cind of team-buildning exercise, more like a reward for "well done". Keep the god work up. That included paintball, and some sport´s activetys, visit a bar and so on. But never did we two hours of playing computer games where you are suppose to blow the head of your colligues or your boss.

Mr Grinnel say´s [Source, cnet.com]
It's about "bonding," Grinnell said, when asked what the benefit to his company is of paying his team to play games. "We laugh until we cry when we play these games. We can do the thing where we have company dinners, and company functions, but those really aren't stress relief. At times, they can be more stress than they're worth."
Added employee Lee Mims, "You don't get to shoot your boss very much. It's kind of nice when you get a head shot on your boss."

Nope, that´s right, you don´t do it in real life. Those hwo say´s that video games and action movies is the responsible for som of all whiloents may be right. Ore is it lack of knowlige from what´s real and is´t.?

And Kim added that he thinks of multiplayer video games like Combat Arms as akin to playing basketball or golf, or even going out for a drink, as a way for colleagues to learn more about each other. But Combat Arms, for one, costs nothing, he pointed out, so properly managed, it is nothing but a net positive for companies. [Source, cnet.com]

My Opinion:
Only the future can tell us if thay have chosen "the strategy". My opinion is that "every way is good eccept the bad ones". (Outher´s who has a opinion, "newstin.com", "kbbtech.com" in the issue.)

Offcourse there is other ways te keep your employees happy, [howstuffworks.com]

"The following 10 tips illustrate that making employees happy usually doesn't include dollar signs, either. Rather, it's intangible incentives that produce the concrete results." Read full story