More Workplace Stories
- Our department decided to do a potluck for someone's retirement, with a sign-up sheet passed around. Everyone somehow signed up for desserts, leaving us with an impressive spread of cake and absolutely nothing savory.
- I offered to organize the office supply closet as a small favor to the team. What I found included three staplers nobody claimed, expired coupons, and my own missing hole punch from what must have been years ago.
- Our office planned a scavenger hunt team-building exercise across the building, with clues hidden in every department. It took three hours instead of the promised one, but genuinely turned out to be more fun than expected.
- Our team decided to celebrate a successful launch with a group outing to a trivia night at a nearby bar. We came in dead last, but somehow had more fun than any other team-building event we'd tried all year.
- Our office tried a new hybrid meeting format with half the team in person and half remote. The audio kept cutting out, and somehow the in-person half ended up just texting the remote half updates instead.
- Our department got new standing desks, promising better posture and energy throughout the day. Most of us just use them as very tall surfaces to lean on while still slouching, more or less as usual.