There's No "I" in Team
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (111865)
United States
July 12, 2025 7:44am CST
Sometimes people can really turn something on its head, but in a very real and funny way. Take the phrase we so often say with great confidence when someone is not wanting to be a team player.
"You know, there's no "I" in team," we say.
I was having some difficulty getting one of my forklift drivers, when I was in management at Coke, to assist another driver with making a few extra bays for his line.
Kenny was working the bottle line and Ray was working the can line, and Ray was a little behind due to a lack of bays to put the finished pallets of product.
I gave him that ever-famous line, to which Kenny replied very boldly back to me, "There ain't no WE in team, either!"
I paused. He was right, you know.
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@DaddyEvil (171712)
• United States
12 Jul
I actually agree with him... I always hated it when I worked faster than someone else but was then told we're a team so I should help them out. I told the team lead that what he was actually saying was I needed to work at a slower pace, like everyone else.
For some reason, he wasn't happy and threatened to write me up... I agreed to a write up and slowed down.
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@DaddyEvil (171712)
• United States
13 Aug
@porwest Dumb bosses always claim their hardest workers are lazy. 
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@Ineeddentures (27192)
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12 Jul
He was right.
Yes he was.
There is no we in team
There is an e
But no w
