Destruct Therapy
The Stop Stress Group is a Spanish company founded by Jorge Arribas Haro in 2003. It offers stress management and team-building therapy to companies, and it specializes in "Destruct Therapy" (Destructoterapia), which involves giving office workers sledge hammers, taking them out to a junk yard, and having them vent their rage on "cars, washing machines, refrigerators, television sets, and so on."
In the video below there's one burly guy who seems like a ringer, and then a bunch of people who are more like tapping the car with the sledgehammer. They're probably thinking, "Why do we have to do this idiotic team building exercise?"
The concept of Destruct Therapy reminds me of Destructivist Art.
In the video below there's one burly guy who seems like a ringer, and then a bunch of people who are more like tapping the car with the sledgehammer. They're probably thinking, "Why do we have to do this idiotic team building exercise?"
The concept of Destruct Therapy reminds me of Destructivist Art.
Comments
Even better if they had the office printer to destroy, like the guys did in Office Space.
I suppose it wasn't hard to figure out what type of band to have playing.
I suppose it wasn't hard to figure out what type of band to have playing.
Posted by Virtual on 05/04/17 at 10:00 AM
Personally I find that a little destruction now and then helps me overcome frustration. It's that split second between order and chaos that I look for. And I prefer explosives in accordance with the old adage that "There is no problem cannot be solved with the proper application of explosives." That and I've become lazy in my old age...
Posted by KDP on 05/04/17 at 01:32 PM
. . and, a Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 05/09/17 at 07:10 PM
When I was at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in upstate NY, every spring they had Grand Marshall Week, their version of hell week. One of the events was that you could get three strikes with a sledgehammer on a junk car.
It was a big stress relief to see the car slowly get destructulated. One year they had a Volvo, and it didn't yield so easily to the sledgehammer's blows, whic h was a bit frustrating.
It was a big stress relief to see the car slowly get destructulated. One year they had a Volvo, and it didn't yield so easily to the sledgehammer's blows, whic h was a bit frustrating.
Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 05/09/17 at 08:02 PM
This was in January 1972 when a Lincoln Continental was still a status symbol. The nights were about 17 hours long with temperatures sometimes reaching minus 40. We were in an isolated bush camp crushing gravel for highway construction. I was weighing the gravel for the highways department, but stayed in one of their bunk houses. Everyone had the post-Christmas midwinter blues.
The boss came up in his new Lincoln and parked where he should not have. Now when you are backing up a D8 Cat and there is a clear path behind you, you don't need to constantly look over your shoulder. He backed over the Lincoln"s trunk. Well enough to total the car.
The boss was upset, but everyone else seemed a shade less blue.
The boss came up in his new Lincoln and parked where he should not have. Now when you are backing up a D8 Cat and there is a clear path behind you, you don't need to constantly look over your shoulder. He backed over the Lincoln"s trunk. Well enough to total the car.
The boss was upset, but everyone else seemed a shade less blue.
Posted by BMN on 05/10/17 at 02:09 PM
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