More Workplace Stories
- 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.
- The office's summer Friday policy let everyone leave two hours early. But on the last Friday of the summer, an urgent meeting ran until the exact normal end time. It felt like a genuine betrayal by the universe.
- The company softball team lost every game for two seasons straight, without exception. This year, against all odds and everyone's expectations, we made it to the semifinals before finally, predictably, losing.
- The office parking lot got repaved over a weekend, and Monday morning nobody could remember which spots were actually theirs anymore. A genuine, if minor, territorial dispute followed for most of the week.