How to Keep the Wackiness Alive in the Modern Workplace
1. Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell
people you’re waiting for your document.
2. 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.
3. Insist that your e-mail address be
“[email protected]”
4. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign
a waiver.
5. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they
want fries with that.
6. Send email to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent
debate about the direction of one of your company’s products.
Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the
disagreement.
8. Name all your pens and insist that meetings can’t begin until
they’re all present.
11. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same
outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is
especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you
are.)
12. 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 I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi.”
“Hey Bucko, are we meeting later?”etc…
14. Include a piece of your children’s artwork as a cover page
for all reports that you write. (If you don’t have children,
draw stick figures yourself.)
15. Schedule meetings for 4:14 p.m.. or 2:37 p.m., or 10:16
a.m..
16. Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little
synchronized chair dancing.
17. Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at
McDonald’s Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.
18. Send email to the rest of the company telling them what
you’re doing. For example “If anyone needs me I’ll be in the
bathroom.”
20. Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it “IN.”
21. Plant a hedge around your cubicle.
23. Build models of the Seven Wonders of the World using empty
soda cans.
24. Put on your headphones on whenever the boss comes into the
office,and talk in a loud voice. Remove your headphones when
she/he leaves.
25. When in conversation, no matter where you are in the office,
mutter, “I think my phone is ringing” and leave to get a coffee.
26. Determine how many cups of coffee is “too many.”
27. Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
28. Compose all your e-mail in rhyming couplets.
29. Install a set of buttons and lights in the arm of your
chair. Talk into your daytimer.
30. “Hi-lite” your shoes and tell people that you haven’t lost
your shoes since you did this.
34. Include a personal note on every email you send. “On a
personal note, I’m feeling a bit tired and grumpy today.” or “On
a personal note, I’m pleased to announce that I got my highest
score ever on Tetris last night.”
35. Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn’t turn out
quite right as special treats for your co-workers.
37. Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.
38. Decorate your office with pictures of Cindy Brady and Danny
Partridge. Try to pass them off as your own children.
39. Send e-mail messages saying free pizza, free donuts etc….
in the lunchroom, when people complain that there was none…
Just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, “Oh you’ve got to be
faster than that.”
40. See how long it takes until the last person stops believing
you. Then start planting pizzas.
41. Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has
gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
42. Put a sign on the copier that says, “Voice Activated! Speak
loudly into the panel.”