More Workplace Stories
- Our office switched to a new project tracking tool, promising it would simplify everything. Three months later, we've added two extra spreadsheets just to track what the tool itself is supposed to be tracking.
- Our office holiday party had a white elephant gift exchange. I brought a nice bottle of wine. Someone stole it from me twice before the game even ended, and I never saw it again.
- My coworker and I started a friendly step-count competition using our phones. I was winning comfortably until I found out she'd been shaking her phone on the couch every evening to boost her numbers.
- Our team decided to do a Secret Santa this year with a strict ten-dollar limit. Someone showed up with a gift clearly worth fifty dollars, and now everyone else feels vaguely, silently guilty.
- Our office decided to do a wellness challenge involving daily step goals. I was in last place for three weeks straight, right up until I discovered you could just walk laps around the parking lot at lunch.
- My manager asked me to give a five-minute update at the team meeting. I ran fifteen minutes over, mostly because nobody stopped me, and I only realized halfway through slide twelve.