My relay team is at work; and we were just informed that our Work picnic is the same day as our relay and that has really left some hard feelings for those involved with the realy.  Yes our relay is from 12 noon Fri to 12 noon Sat but who wants to be up for over 24 hours and go to the picnic which is at an amusement park for a nother 12 hours or so...We want to do they relay, at least raise money for it but probably can't be at the relay itself.  Someone mentioned that we have a mini relay here at work but I don't know how well that would go over.  See we have over 600 employees but I would say maybe only 10 out of those 600 really attends the relay itself.  We have no problem raising money with lunches, bake sales, etc here at work but it's getting other employees involved in the actual event that is the problem.  Then I was thinking about being something like a "ghost" team but what message is that sending that we aren't actually there.

We are very upset about this and stewing mad...what can we do???