Teambuilding: Blue Jeans Baby, Blue Jeans

A friend of mine works for this company which places a major premium on teambuilding. They eat as a team, work as a team, play as a team, sleep...well not sleep as a team, but you get what I mean.

Naturally they chose the uber-trendy The Blue Jeans Bar as their teambuilding events.

My friend naturally assumed that for the $200 or so that was going to be spent on a pair of jeans, they were going to measure, and build the best fitting pair of jeans on the planet.

Nope.

My friend then thought they were going to pick out a pair of jeans and then alter the jeans into the best-fitting pair of jeans on the planet.

Nope.

Instead, what my friend found out was that for $200, there would be people helping to pick out jeans, which would then have to be hemmed (each pair in the store was at a standard 34" inseam) to the tune of $40 (provided the tailor receives the extra denim material).

And no, that $40 would not be covered.

So, inspecting jeans, trying them on in the seclusion of individual changing rooms, finally choosing that perfect $200 pair of jeans, and then plunking down $40+ to have them fit you...that apparently was the perfect embodiment of teambuilding.

Of course, the person who chose this as the teambuilding event, was the only person who did not need to have their jeans altered.

How do you say irony in Corporate America speak?