A coworker and I had an epiphany today.
I'm celebrating a birthday this weekend (so many candles, so little cake), and a couple of close friends sent a "gorilla gram" to me at work today. Totally embarrasing, being serenaded by a guy in a gorilla suit holding a handful of pink ballons ... but lots of fun.
Well, we realized that that was something which had been missing from the office since the departure of our previous CTO, and the layoffs that happened earlier this year. What we needed was something potentially embarrasing, but fun.
For example: Last summer, most of the programmers bought little "micro bikes" and were riding them around the cubicles. And since many of us are very competitive, it ended up in a lunchtime race being held in the nearby courtyard. So here we are, riding these itty-bitty bikes, half-falling off, with "race numbers" pinned to the back of our shirts like "3/4", "-1", and "38100" (an infamous error code at the company), while all these folks in suits stood around and laughed with us at our antics (well, probably *at* us, but it didn't matter).
So, we're working on a development group outing to the state fair in a few weeks. We'll go ride some rides, play the rigged games, eat food that's really bad for us (and some that isn't, like the Emu burger), ride some more rides, and probably get ill. Should be great fun!
So, if your people have the blues, go do something fun with them. It'll improve morale and productivity.
Chip H.
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I'm celebrating a birthday this weekend (so many candles, so little cake), and a couple of close friends sent a "gorilla gram" to me at work today. Totally embarrasing, being serenaded by a guy in a gorilla suit holding a handful of pink ballons ... but lots of fun.
Well, we realized that that was something which had been missing from the office since the departure of our previous CTO, and the layoffs that happened earlier this year. What we needed was something potentially embarrasing, but fun.
For example: Last summer, most of the programmers bought little "micro bikes" and were riding them around the cubicles. And since many of us are very competitive, it ended up in a lunchtime race being held in the nearby courtyard. So here we are, riding these itty-bitty bikes, half-falling off, with "race numbers" pinned to the back of our shirts like "3/4", "-1", and "38100" (an infamous error code at the company), while all these folks in suits stood around and laughed with us at our antics (well, probably *at* us, but it didn't matter).
So, we're working on a development group outing to the state fair in a few weeks. We'll go ride some rides, play the rigged games, eat food that's really bad for us (and some that isn't, like the Emu burger), ride some more rides, and probably get ill. Should be great fun!
So, if your people have the blues, go do something fun with them. It'll improve morale and productivity.
Chip H.
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first
) toilet papered houses for kids birthday. I'll admit I was the master at it, planning, gathering, and executing the prank. Everyone knew my birthday was coming up and I knew they were going to try and get me and I did NOT want to have to clean that mess. So I went about a few days before I turned 14 and set up sprinklers everywhere and waited. Night after night I'd wait for them. Then never came so I gave up. About 2 weeks later my friends mom had me mow her lawn one sunday. While I was over there my friend and everyone else I had papered went over, got my parents to let me in and they filled my entire room floor to ceiling with cumpled up news paper.