Free Jive Classes are a waste of money

[Dreadful Scathe]

see here - oh, the horror

[DavidY]

I'm suitably horrified.

We have it in England too - I seem to remember Phil Roberts (one-time franchisee of Ceroc Central) ran a class for some of my colleagues a few years ago.

[emmylou25]

We did something last Thursday similar to this as it was national 'Learning at Work' day, which we decided to tie in with the launch of our Health & Wellbeing forum.

Basically we had lots of taster sessions either run by people who work at the company, or got outside people in, for 30-45mins sessions - food demo sessions, martial arts, yoga, food quiz, walk session, and lots of display/information on local activities etc. Ceroc was one of the sessions - good fun, easy for people to pick up quickly and much to my relief a reasonable number of people turned up.

It's a good idea for people to learn other skills and take time out, but obviously companies aren't going to want people to take too much time out/for much longer than a lunch break would be. If places work on flexi-time I suppose it's not really an issue, even if they are public companies, especially if the tax payers not paying.

Having said that, the wierd 'mumbo jumbo' new age-y stuff is a bit of a strange thing to be encouraging your workers to partake in.

[Dreadful Scathe]

It's a good idea for people to learn other skills and take time out, but obviously companies aren't going to want people to take too much time out/for much longer than a lunch break would be. If places work on flexi-time I suppose it's not really an issue, even if they are public companies, especially if the tax payers not paying.

Having said that, the wierd 'mumbo jumbo' new age-y stuff is a bit of a strange thing to be encouraging your workers to partake in.

true, but if its not wanted, no one will go. And its certainly true that with flexi-time, the company is getting all of the benefit of employees cheered up by free teaching with the only negatives being stupid tabloid news stories

[bigdjiver]

... Having said that, the wierd 'mumbo jumbo' new age-y stuff is a bit of a strange thing to be encouraging your workers to partake in.

As I read it, between the lines, they are not "encouraging", but giving the opportunity. It seems to me likely that this is just one of 60 classes, and, given the alternatives, I doubt there will be much of a take-up.

Some employers might be worried about employees who signed up for such a course.


I have suggested to various organisers that they tried to offer such sessions to big firms as a way of building teamwork and morale, relieving stress, getting their employees fitter, and, naturally, bringing in new dancers. If fact you could build a business doing just that.

[Stuart]

We have it at our place as well, although I couldn't go this year as I had to go to a meeting.

Last year we had a Salsa class, which was quite painful given the carpets in our office!