Office Boredom Busters
Office work dull?...
None of your colleagues appreciate your humour?...
Amuse yourself. Points are awarded on a degree of difficulty basis. You can award yourself extra points for creative execution
One-Point Gags
- Run one lap around the office at top speed
- Groan out loud in the bathroom cubicle (at least one other 'non-player' must be in the bathroom at the time)
- 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.
- When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, "Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!"
- Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, "Sorry, I really prefer it this way"
- Walk sideways to the photcopier.
- While riding an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open
Three-Point Gags
- Say to your boss, "I like your style" and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
- Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask "Did you get All that, I don't want to have to repeat it"
- Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice)
- Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle (there must be a 'non-player' within sight).
- Shout random numbers while someone is counting
Five-Point Gags
- 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 Jamacian 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, damm it, all of you just shut up!"
- At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again".
- In a colleagues diary, write in 10am: "See how I look in tights"
- Carry your keyboard 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' talk about it"
- Posing as a maitre d', call a colleague and tell him he's won a lunch for four at a local resturant. Let him go
- Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc) during a very important conference call.
- Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk
- Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.
- Rollerblade around the floor throwing sweets