If your bosses try and pull this shit, walk out on them.
17 July 2008
I have found a book that you must hope your bosses never find. It's titled The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up, by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher. It's a terrible, evil, painfully optimistic book, and in chapter 7, the authors list "142 Ways to Have Fun at Work." What follows are the highlights:
2. Offer to shave your head if your team reaches a goal. If you're already bald, offer to paint your dome.
13. Have a theme day and have employees decorate their cubicles and compete for prizes.
19. To get a meeting started with a bang, have employees come up with two truths about themselves one one lie. Everyone else must guess which one is the lie.
21. Cari Gray, HR director of Panera Bread, says, "My recruiter and I do a 'hiring dance' every time we get an accepted job offer for a management fill. Whoever is around at the time gets to see it."
50. Instead of all day, have a casual day that starts at noon on Wednesday. Have people bring their casual clothes to change into over the lunch hour.
58. Without changing your voice, page yourself over the intercom.
89. Have a shoes optional day.
Holy Christ. If your bosses try any of those, kill them. I'm sorry, but that's the way it has to be. No jury of your working peers will convict you.