We took about 2 dozen staff out last Friday, had a 3 course meal then went bowling. This means all the Saturday kids can come with us and I don't need to find a babysitter!! All the staff are mixed on the bowling lanes to avoid any cliques (much to the disgust of some when I insisted the first year we did this). A bus is laid on so no one has to drive and mostly it goes smoothly.

What really gets my goat is the staff who think they're entitled to this every year and it wouldn't occur to them to say thank you for any of it

Carol