Most every company in China goes on a company trip annually (nice perk if you ask me). The biggest challenge is where to go. If you have a big budget you can fly someplace most people haven't been. If you don't have the big budget you take a bus or a train. But then everyone complains that "they've been there before."
So along with my GM and CFO we tried to come up with options that would work. However we didn't have a huge budget and have an office of 57 people so it was tough. Every idea that I threw out was rejected. Either they had been there before, didn't want to go there, etc.
I even suggested what if we went someplace within an hour of Shanghai and took spouses and kids? Just went for a day, played in the park, hiked, BBQ'd, went to a nice dinner, whatever. That idea was shot down faster than I could get it out of my mouth. I guess they all want to get away from home and their family!
In any event I finally made the decision and we planned on Nanjing. It's about a 4 hour bus ride from Shanghai. So not close but not like a 12 hour overnight bus ride that was suggested to me.
As soon as the decision was made many were not happy. I heard it all from "I've been there before" to "we don't want to go to a city, we want the countryside" to "we don't like Nanjing because of what the Japanese did there." (More on that when I post the update on the trip).
Bottom line you can't make everyone happy. But I was shocked to see the very selfish side of folks. For goodness sake it is a FREE trip, free hotel, food and sightseeing. Get over it! You can make what you want of it and be happy or make everyone miserable. There were some who chose to try and make everyone else miserable...
More on the trip later...
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