By Sarah Barker
What’s Happening
• What some might call a cheaper alternative to the therapist’s couch, the Break Room at Sarah’s Smash Shack in San Diego lets frustrated folk vent by hurling glassware and dishes, for as little as $12.
• Marketed as a cathartic good time, the Smash Shack provides breakables, a safe and sound-proof room, and protective gear. Smashers are encouraged to bring their mp3 player to heighten the experience (may we suggest Smashing Pumpkins?).
• Sarah’s Smash Shack offers discounts to police, fire, military, students, and seniors. Shards are donated for art projects, or for $10, they’ll box up your spent bits as a memento.
What This Means to Business
• Destructive therapy: The naughtiness, the surrender to feelings of frustration, the permission to lose control—it’s way wild.
• The physical and sensory experience of exploding dishes, crashing glassware, and pitching stuff is a fun break from talking about our problems.
This may be fun but hardly a breakthrough in anger management intervention. Venting only increases the feeling or anger.
Posted by: George Anderson | October 09, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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Posted by: pakistan | June 08, 2009 at 08:27 AM
Discounts for seniors. That *IS* nice.
Posted by: Josh | January 18, 2009 at 09:17 PM
Can I bring in my colleague's notebook computer and smash it?
Posted by: Whatsername | January 16, 2009 at 02:50 PM
definitely some stress relief!
Posted by: elizabeth | January 14, 2009 at 06:13 PM