The Office Game

Here's a way to spice up your office. Pick two or three colleagues and agree to play the Office Game which awards points as follows:

ONE POINT

- Run one lap around the office at top speed.

- Walk sideways to the photocopier.

- Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.

- When they're not looking, pour most of someone's fresh cup of coffee into your mug leaving them with an inch of brew.

- Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.

- Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say "Just called to say I can't talk right now. Bye."

- To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.

- While riding an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

THREE-POINTS

- Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask "Did you get all that, I don't want to have to repeat it." - Double points if you do this to a manager.

- Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.

- Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

FIVE POINTS

- At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).

- Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.

- For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as 'Bob'.

- Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do number two".

- After every sentence, say 'mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in, "the report's on your desk, mon". Keep this up for one hour.

- While an office mate is out, move their chair into the elevator.

- In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, all of you just shut up!"

- In a colleague's diary, write in 10 am: "See how I look in tights".

- Carry your laptop over to your colleague and ask "You wanna trade?"

- Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now"

- Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, "I can't talk about it"

- Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc.) during a very important conference call.

- Tuck one pant leg into your sock and when queried, answer, "not now" and walk away.