Gator Feedback Circle

Radical Candor Meets Natural Predator

So your team needs to “get real with each other”? Fantastic. Please take a seat — in a rickety folding chair, arranged in a perfect circle of dread, surrounded by a rotating perimeter of emotionally clairvoyant alligators.

Welcome to The Gator Feedback Circle™, a raw and deeply unregulated group therapy gauntlet where participants are required to share one piece of brutally honest feedback while hoping they don’t get lunged at by Darla, our 16-foot lie detector in scales. She’s flanked by a team of reptiles specifically trained to detect corporate nonsense, spiritual weakness, and fake empathy delivered in a sing-song voice.

You can give feedback on anything: a teammate’s performance, a department’s vibe, the quality of the retreat snacks, or your boss’s “funny little habit” of scheduling 4:59pm Friday meetings. But you better mean it — because the moment you hedge, posture, or use the phrase “I feel like maybe...” the gators will close the circle.

Someone once tried to open with “No offense, but…”
They were never seen again.
Only their lanyard floated back.

Why Managers Love It:

  • Extracts honesty the way a blender extracts pulp

  • Eliminates 80% of vague feedback

  • Leaves employees either healed or trembling — both are productive

  • Can technically be written off as a “communication workshop”

What It Teaches:

  • Guilt has a scent

  • Darla can smell it

  • No one is safe if they describe a coworker as “a little much, but sweet”

Past participants have described the experience as:
🌀 “Like a trust circle, but with fangs and vengeance.”
🌀 “I thought I was giving feedback. Turns out I was confessing.”
🌀 “A gator made eye contact and I apologized for everything I’ve ever done since college.”

🧠 Bonus Feature: If your feedback includes more than three buzzwords, you are immediately replaced with a scarecrow version of yourself and escorted out by reptiles in HR vests.

⚠️ Warning: Anyone who opens with “I’m just going to say what we’re all thinking…” will be dragged backward out of their spot before finishing the sentence.
Anyone who ends with “Hope that helps!” becomes legally edible.

Meet the Gators

  • Darla

    Darla, 16, was born on a reclaimed HR retreat site and raised on passive-aggressive feedback loops. She hisses every time someone says “pivot” unironically. She feeds exclusively on insincerity. She lunges at the sound of buzzwords. Favorite shape: circle. Least favorite phrase: “per my last email.” Her spirit animal is “No.”

  • Felicia

    22, emotion whisperer. Born in a defunct pirate show and raised by drama. Felicia detects false vulnerability like a lie detector and once hissed audibly when someone fake-cried in a team check-in. She’s a chronic eavesdropper with a keen ear for emotional dishonesty. Felicia prefers vulnerable prey and has been known to attack anyone who uses “live, laugh, love” in earnest.

  • Dolores

    Dolores, 21, was hatched near a strip mall Cinnabon. She is clairvoyant, calm, methodical, and incredibly judgmental. She stares for long stretches and blinks only when she’s deeply disappointed. She was once in a pilot program for emotional support reptiles but was removed for “excessive tension.” Dolores is known for draining morale from a room just by sighing.

  • Clarence

    Clarence is 19 and emerged from a misty golf course pond already holding a grudge. He’s known to silently float just beneath the surface of the retreat pond for hours, watching, calculating, and absolutely judging. He has been known to track people across the wetlands based solely on the tone of their laughter and unexplainable hates people who call themselves “fun.”

Tripadvisor Reviews

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Cried during my feedback. Gator nuzzled me gently. Still confused.”

    Charisa, Eau Claire

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I cried. Then Felicia hissed. Then I grew.”

    Arik, Bemidji

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “The moment I said 'leverage,' Darla growled and a lightbulb exploded. Incredible.”

    Camille, Brooklyn Park