More Workplace Stories
- Our team decided to try a new software tool that promised to streamline our whole workflow in one week. It took a full month just to learn, and we're still not entirely sure it's actually faster than before.
- The company's new expense reporting software promised a five-minute process. My first submission took forty-five minutes and three separate attempts, mostly spent hunting for a receipt category that simply didn't exist.
- The office's new mentorship program paired every senior employee with a junior one. My mentee ended up teaching me more about the new software than I taught her about anything at all this quarter.
- The office's annual charity drive collected canned goods for a local food bank. Someone donated an entire case of a genuinely unpopular vegetable, and it became a running joke for the rest of the year.
- The office holiday party moved to a new venue this year with a much bigger budget than usual. Somehow the food ran out within the first hour, and the open bar became the only thing anyone remembered afterward.
- The annual office fantasy football league added a new rule this year requiring the last-place finisher to wear an embarrassing costume for a week. Someone's already lost with three weeks still left in the season.