Pros
communal lunch with folks from other departments was a good opportunity to get to know people who you usually do not otherwise talk to.
Cons
High turnover rates in the youth organizing department. Instead of address why there is such a high rate of young mostly femme organizers leaving the org, leadership blames "young people not wanting to stay at their jobs." Everyone including supervisors are burnt out and instead of sitting down and ask what the long term plan is to address this issue so that the community and organizers can do their job better - everyone is give a one week "mental health" break. A consultant had to be brought in to address issues that were happening within the team but some members of the team, the ones that were clearly not affected by the issues, were not interested in fixing these issues.