Complainstorming 

When creative professionals gather under the auspice of generating ideas, but really intend to bitch and moan about their jobs/workplaces/projects/colleagues.

"We had a lunch meeting. It started out as a great ideation session but devolved into complainstorming."

Complainstorming by ebethleo December 15, 2011

complainstorming 

Like brainstorming, except you list complaints about something, and then list the opposite of each complaint. Makes use of people's natural tendency to complain in a constructive way, in that you end up with a more complete picture of what you do want.

We tried brainstorming a solution to scheduling during holidays but only came up with the same old same old. So we switched to complainstorming, and came up with a dozen really good solutions.

complainstorming by already there November 20, 2015