You know all is well when you break into a nerf baseball game with your boss in the middle of the afternoon in the call centre.
You know all is well when you do cartwheels in the hallway, fall on your ass and the VP of Marketing says: “nice landing”.
You know all is well when you spend an afternoon listening to Afternoon Delights just so you can write down the stupid lyrics and laugh for hours.
You know all is well when you have high-kicking contest and use a pen to mark every players score on the wall.
You know all is well when you spend an afternoon writing a dance routine to The Love Boat theme.
You know all is well when you start calling each others’ pagers while already in a meeting just so you can see them jump because it’s on vibrate mode.
That’s the kind of team I once worked with, we were fun, young, made good money working in a fun place.
There was this other game we use to play too: we’d sneak up behind someone, using anything we had in our hands at the time and pressing it against their lower back and ask out loud: “What’s Up Your Bum?”. Oh hilarity would always ensue.
Until that famous day when one of the gang tried that while waiting in line at the cafeteria… using her tray, she pressed it against my bum and asked the “catch question” quite loudly for others to hear… I mean other people from other departments that didn’t quite get the Marketing/Sales team the way we dug each other… And yes, there was a call made to Human Resources… And yes, we were called in to the boss’ office… It turns out Maggie, the extremely large and eternally single clerk from Accounting #71 took offense to our little game and complained. Luckily my boss was serious enough to tell HR he would talk to all of us so we would cease these type of actions – AND – funny enough that when he called us all in his office, he couldn’t keep a straight face trying to tell us how embarrassing his meeting with HR was.
Oh yeah, I forgot, after our pep-talk he showed us all a video-email he had just received from his girlfriend starring women putting oranges or apples inside their vageygeys…
That sounds awesome. It’s a scientific fact that taking jobs too seriously lowers productivity. A scientific fact I made up, but still.
As long as you all didn’t say “bum” in a bad “Austin Powers” voice, all WAS well.
By the way, I think I rented that DVD. It had the bonus scene “Ball bats and beer bottles; the outtakes!”