Ways To
Have Fun in the Workplace
Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise
your voice.
Find out where
your boss shops and buy exactly the same
outfits. Wear them one day after you boss does.
This is especially effective if your boss is of
a different gender than you.
Make up
nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to
them only by these names. "That's a good point,
Sparky." "No, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have
to disagree with you there, Cha-Cha."
Send e-mail to
the rest of the company telling them exactly
what you're doing. For example: "If anyone needs
me, I'll be in the bathroom."
Hi-Lite your
shoes. Tell people you haven't lost them as much
since you did this.
While sitting
at your desk, soak your fingers in Palmolive
liquid. Call everyone Marge.
Hang mosquito
netting around your cubicle. When you emerge to
get coffee or a printout or whatever, slap
yourself randomly the whole way.
Put a chair
facing a printer. Sit there all day and tell
people you're waiting for your document.
Every time
someone asks you to do something, anything, ask
them if they want fries with that.
Send e-mail
back and forth to yourself engaging yourself in
an intellectual debate. Forward the mail to a
co-worker and ask her to settle the
disagreement.
Encourage your
colleagues to join you in a little synchronized
chair-dancing.
Put your trash
can on your desk. Label it "IN."
Feign an
unnatural and hysterical fear of staplers.
Send e-mail
messages saying there's free pizza or donuts or
cake in the lunchroom. When people drift back to
work complaining that they found none, lean
back, pat your stomach and say, "oh you've got
to be faster than that.
Put decaf in
the coffeemaker for three weeks. Once everyone
has withdrawn from caffeine addiction, switch to
espresso.
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