haunted headquarter weekends, chilli cooking competitions, and spirit parties

[Ksenia]

Hello.

• Work hard and play hard (it is one of the benefits one company offers) - Have fun, because happy employees equal happy customers. Why not join our haunted headquarter weekends, chilli cooking competitions, and spirit parties?

Please explain me the meaning of the above mentioned question. What is meant by it?

Thank you.

 

[bhaisahab]

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It shouldn't really have a question mark, it's not a real question. Where did you find it?

 

[Ksenia]

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'Business Result' Advanced Student's Book (Oxford).

 

[Ksenia]

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'Spirit party'.

I understand that it's rather an offering than a question. But I don't understand what 'haunted headquarter weekends', 'chilli cooking competitions' and 'spirit parties' mean...:-(

 

[Weaver67]

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Not a teacher.
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By'spirit party' here may be meant an occasion on which people gather to summon spirits, in order to talk to them. I think in this context it was referred to as simply a form of entertainment -- just for fun, nothing serious, which seems to explain why the 'weekends' are 'haunted' (frequented by spirits or ghosts).

 

[Rover_KE]

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Ksenia, I have changed the original title of your thread.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'

 

[Weaver67]

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Not a teacher.
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Ah! And I seem to have left the 'chili cooking completion' thing out of my previous post.
To my mind, it is, again, a form of entertainment, a contest, in which the participants compete with each other in cooking dishes where chili is the main ingredient.

 

[GoesStation]

Why not join our haunted headquarter weekends, chilli cooking competitions, and spirit parties?

A haunted headquarter weekend would be a weekend during which the company's main office was decorated with scary images and devices.

A chili-cooking competition is a contest to see who brings the best chili con carne.

I don't know what they mean by spirit parties.

 

[SoothingDave]

If I had to guess, I would say they were parties held in order to increase/promote company "spirit." Like "esprit de corps."

 

[Ksenia]

Oh, I would never guess the meaning of these expressions without your help! :roll:
Are they really common in American companies' literature?

 

[GoesStation]

Oh, I would never guess the meaning of these expressions without your help!
Are they really common in American companies' literature?

Some American companies go to great lengths to promote a friendly atmosphere among their employees. Companies with this kind of atmosphere might well promote it in their recruiting literature.

A chili-cooking competition is the sort of friendly, low-key contest that you might find at these companies. The haunted HQ seems a little more eccentric but not too far from the norm. If "spirit parties" means "parties where we build company spirit," it's probably also not that unusual.