Making Workplace Exciting
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- Buckyball2
Hola,
As of late, our little studio here has taken a turn for the boring and mundane. It seems everyone has gone into this shell of an existence just staring at their monitor and cranking away. Although this is good for billing, it tends to make the "fun factor" suffer.
With that said, I and another co-worker were trying to think of ways to spice things up in here. In a fun a legal way of course. Does anyone have any legitimate suggestions on how to liven up a work environment. Without becoming a distraction or nuisance.
Mind you, the ages range from 25 to 50 in our studio. Public playings of music are usually not an option based on varying opinions and thresholds of noise levels.
What have you done in the past to put the fun back into the job?
thanks,
bB
- BSchwerve0
Piss in the coffee maker.
That should liven them up a bit.
- heihachi0
My co-workers and I would go for some 99 cent magaritas or beer during lunch. Not to get tanked, but just a little relief from the mundane postering and that sinking feeling the company was going broke.
Marathon "team buliding exercises" were also integral :) Yeah, way back before Quake...
- Buckyball20
thx heihachi. I just saw one on the web about celebrating a fake holiday like "Willie Nelson" day. Something nonsensical just to jumpstart the workplace and get people involved. More. More.
bB
- bent0
Bi-sexual Fridays!
- k0na_an0k0
masturbate mondays
topless tuesdays
weed wednesdays
thong thursdays
fire another one up fridaysshould liven up the place a bit.
- Buckyball20
legitimate kona. C'mon!!
:-)
I think we should have some sort of loose pet running around on a constant basis. Like a guinea pig or something. Nothing gets the place jumping like a loose rodent.
bB
- Biofreak0
i made a paper doll and called him Bruce the Inappropriate Paper Doll.
everyday and sometimes twice a day, i would make him say something different and COMPLETELY fucking insane. i quote...
"Whilst sitting 'neath a tree
I chanced to spy a small toad.
He wriggled mighty fiercly
as I dressed him in womens clothes."and i never admitted to anyone but the art director that it was me doing it. so everyone was always asking me if i knew who did those crazy things. it was great fun til the head salesguy took him down. but that is ok, cuz i made puppets of everyone in the art department and plan to put them up around the building to say different things. =)
- DSI0
was that a richard gere quote?
- Buckyball20
We have an 18 inch cut out of John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever hanging from the ceiling. Even that can't jump start the fun. It's F&*KING Travolta.
We're doomed.
bB
- unknown0
fluffers - nothing else...
- unknown0
failing that, dance. Make the fuckers dance.
- k0na_an0k0
for the hell of it kingkezza,
tomorrow come into work dressed in drag and play it off like nothing is out of the ordinary.
- unknown0
I did come into work in a man-dress once (sarong) (but its so right) he he
bout as edgy as I get
- k0na_an0k0
AHHH!
GOT IT!!!
buy a couple nerf ball blasters and have wars in the office on fridays!
When I first moved into my house my roomie and I went to Target pretty late one night. I happened to walk past the toy isle and some kid shot a soft nerf dart my way. I ran over and grabbed a gun of my own and duked it out with this kid and got the idea of buying a gun or two for the house. (It's a big place that was empty for the first couple days cause the delivery truck with out stuff was late). I'm not kidding, there are like 8 guns laying around the house now that my friends and I will screw around with before parties or going out. ROCKS COMMANDO JOE STYLE YO.
To 'hip it up' as of late we've been saying things like 'yo biatch, drive by coming yo way' and 'get out my crib homie' and 'i'll bust a cap in yo ass foo' We got that Idea from CNN.
- frow0
Could always give one of these a go:
1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your e mail address is: Xena-Warrior-Princess@companynam...
4) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronised chair dancing.
6) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
7) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
8) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
9) In the memo field of all your checks, write 'for the pizza.'
10) Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
11) Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."
12) Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others that you like it that way.
13) Dont use any punctuation
14) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
15) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
16) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
17) Sing along at the opera.
18) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
19) Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is of the opposite gender.)
20) Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you're doing. For example, "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom, in Stall #3."
21) Put mosquito netting around your cubicle. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
22) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend the potluck party because you're not in the mood.
23) Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.
24) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.
25) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!", "I Won!""3rd time this week!!!"
26) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
27) Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that bother me, its the voices in your head that do."
28) Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
29) Every time you see a broom, yell "Honey, your mother is here!"
30) UsE RAnDoM cAPiTaliZaTiON iN EvEryTHiNg YOu wrITe
31) Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during the meeting. During the meeting eat 5 entire raw potatoes.
32) Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you're waiting for your document.
33) "Hi-lite" your shoes. Tell people that you haven't lost your shoes since you did this.
34) Slap the boss's face every time he interrupts your afternoon nap.
35) Pee up your office door, your desk or your cubicle and growl at anyone that comes near.
36) Follow delivery men around in pure James Bond style, but make it very obvious.
37) Persistantly call your bosses 'sweetcheeks' and wink at them in front of everyone.
38) Whenever you answer the phone, do so in a french accent, and slowly change it to a japanese accent.
39) Belch loudly over the intercom, then ask if anyone wants to hear a fart.
40) When the boss starts talking to you, open and drink a bottle of ketchup.
41) Put those hole reinforcing circles on the center of you eyeglasses. Now go to that executive meeting.
42) Turn your monitor facing the wall, if anyone asks what you're doing, say that this is the most interesting side of the monitor
43) Have races in the corridors with chairs that don't have wheels on them
44) Hold open automatic doors for people.
45) Threaten to jump out of a ground floor window.
46) Bring empty crisps and buscuit packets and sandwich bag to work in your packed lunch box and pretend to eat it. Make sure the wrappers are different each day, you need variety in life.
47) Replace the mouse with a real mouse.
48) Delibrately get colleagues names wrong.
49) Ask at a newsagent if they will read the paper to you or at least give you the general jist of it.
50) Eat stink bombs before french kissing.
51) Drive to work and walk back.
52) Ask to borrow a pencil, snap it infront of their face, then point at the car park and ask which one is theirs.
53) Wear socks on the outside of your shoes.
54) End all sentences with ".co.uk".
55) Play bagpipes in meetings.
56) Go to an interview, act like your the interviewer.
- unknown0
we have stuffed monkeys that scream (or maybe it's a laugh?) when you squeeze their belly. so, once one person squeezes... so does everyone else... we have a 'monkey bonding moment'...
company name: Binary Jungle
- unknown0
FROW, half of those start tomorrow
- apt5a0
blunts, loud music, drums-bass-guitar-rhodes, models, playstation, yoga chicks, toilets overflowing, random hangerbys
that usually keeps things active over here