With the upcoming Super Bowl, I gave thought to what the business world would look like if we added flavor from the sports world.
Imagine some of the fun moments:
- Emptying the coffee pot without a refill incurs the wrath of Terry Tate, office linebacker (you kill the joe, you make some mo’!)
- Every 8-10 minutes of a conference call, the meeting organizer announces “we’ll be right back after this TV timeout” subsequently follow by 3 minutes of everyone standing around.
- Trading your high potential consultant to a competitor for 2 average consultants, cash, and a player to be named later (still in college)
- A horde of people sitting in your office or cubicle, cheering or booing wildly based on your mouse clicks
- The Budweiser Clydesdales available during lunchtime for a ride around the parking lot
- A dress code so everyone wears the same uniform
- Employees not coming into work until management pays them more because they ‘outperformed’ their contract
- Video replay of mundane tasks in slow motion with witty remarks from an unseen commentator. Watch how perfect Michael staples these papers together!
- Anyone responding ‘Reply All’ to a company wide email distribution gets hit with a penalty and forced to work in the bathroom (or other penalty box) for 5 minutes
- The mandatory greeting when the receptionist answers the phone is WASSUP!
- Random spitting on the floor or grabbing body parts… just because.
What other fun moments can you think of? Did you know creating lists like this on a daily basis can turn you into an idea machine?
Totally loving this! Sign me up for #2 and #7 !!
Oh, you have NAILED it! So much of #2, way too much of #8!
Love it. I’m new to American Football coming from Cape Town, South Africa so I may get the terminology wrong. How about:
12. Sacking the presenter if there is too much text on the slides and/or if the slides are used as teleprompters.
13. Throwing down your laptop after nailing a particularly good business review or sales pitch.