colleagues demonstrating strange behaviour
more observations about colleagues.Ours seem more hyper than average, just on the wrong side of acceptably wacky. In particular, Prozac Girl who is a new team member and is trying to gain our trust and assistance by leaning in close and revealing slightly too much cleavage. Nnnggg.
I'm laying down the gauntlet right now to M & S (ha!):
ONE-POINT OFFICE DARES
1) Run one lap around the office at top speed.
2) Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.
3) Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say,
"Just called to say I can't talk right now. Bye."
4) To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.
5) When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, "Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!".
6) Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, "Sorry, I just needed to take a breather".
7) Walk sideways to the photocopier.
8) While riding in an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.
THREE-POINTS DARES
1) Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice). MY LAST DAY AT PROSOUND I WANTED TO PAGE MYSELF AND SAY "LINDA - I'LL MISS YOU! DON'T FORGET TO COME TO MY DESK AND SAY GOOD-BYE BEFoRE YOU LEAVE!"
2) Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, "Did you get all that, I don't want to have to repeat it".
3) Say to your boss, "I like your style" and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
4) Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle (there must be a 'non-player' within sight).
5) Shout random numbers while someone is counting.
FIVE POINT DARES
1) At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).
2) Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.
3) For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as "Bob".
4) Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do a number two".
5) After every sentence, say 'Mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in "The report's on your desk, Mon". Keep this up for one hour.
6) While an office mate is out, move their chair into the elevator.
7) In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!".
8) At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again".
9) In a colleague's diary, write in 10am: "See how I look in tights". (Extra points if it is a male, even more if he is your boss)
10) Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask "You wanna trade?"
11) Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now".
12) Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, "I can't talk about it".
13) Posing as a maitre d', call a colleague and tell him he's won a lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go.
14) Speak with an accent (French, German, porky Pig, etc) during a very important conference call.
15) Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.
16) Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.
17) Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit, smash each biscuit with your fist.
18) During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.
19) Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life counterparts.
posted by Kat @ 8:59 AM
9 Comments:
Prozac Girl is indeed, very friendly. It seems that all of the people who have occupied her position in recent times have been quite, er, friendly.
It must come with the territory.
I'm wondering who she's revealing the cleavage to - I missed this particular display, as, being the gentleman I am, I was looking at her eyes as she was talking.
Although every time she bounces across the floor to pay our team a visit, she does somehow manage to invade everyone's personal space at the same time.
Cheerful though - so I'm not complaining. :D
Must be your inimitable charm, young Milo, it obviously brings out the errr... best in such types.
Just like to point out that the reason I noticed the exposure was because of the leaning in close, which made it the same level as your eyes therefore difficult to ignore.
It is odd - and I may well be jumping to conclusions - but as a nearly-married man I shall simply ignore any further near-outbursts with a quiet dignity.
Until she bounces away again and we collapse laughing.
M
Bounces away in a very Tigger-like fashion.
In fact, that's the new handle. Tigger Girl.
Good call.
I can think of another who can take the Prozac Girl moniker.
:)
We could, of course, get to the bottom of this, erm, by inviting said team, Tigger Girl and special guests to Lucky Voice.
I feel a proper social is in order.
Another very good call, my esteemed colleague.
Let's put the word out.
Prozac Girl = Skunk-hair Girl?
Bingo
New work dare:
Surreptitiously take digital photos of colleagues around your office. Email them the resulting photos.
Bonus points if you 'adapt' them in some way in Photoshop.
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