More Workplace Stories
- We tried a new recipe for the office potluck, something more ambitious than my usual dish. It was, by every honest measure, a disaster, and I've since gone back to the reliable pasta salad everyone actually likes.
- Our team decided to do a group workout challenge for a month, tracking everyone's progress on a shared spreadsheet. I finished dead last, but somehow ended up with the best attendance record of anyone.
- Our office decided to switch to a four-day work week trial, promising more balance. Somehow everyone's now cramming five days of meetings into four, and the balance part hasn't quite materialized yet.
- Our team decided to celebrate hitting a big project milestone with a group lunch. Someone suggested sushi, someone else suggested pizza, and we spent longer debating the venue than we did actually eating once we finally agreed.
- Our office had a costume contest for Halloween this year, with a genuinely competitive cash prize on the line. Someone showed up in a costume clearly rented for hundreds of dollars, and the rest of us in DIY efforts felt slightly outgunned.
- I offered to help my coworker move apartments over the weekend, thinking it'd take a couple hours. Six hours, three flights of stairs, and one broken lamp later, we finally finished, and I've learned to ask more questions before volunteering.