It's been slow at work lately. I hate when it's slow. I'd much rather have work to do than have to go looking for things to do. A few months ago I undertook a big overhaul of the filing system to streamline things for everyone but I'm done with that and now the thumb twiddling happens when we aren't busy. With out crew it can be a little dangerous to leave us idle for too long. We are a creative bunch and at least two of us are in touch with out inner 12 year old boys. That can spell trouble.
Today in between waiting for the beep and taking care of the few patients we had I generated several boredom alleviating activities....or at least signs that the schedule is too slow.
- Painting an entire wall with a white-out and highlighter mural
- Emulating PeeWee Herman with the scotch-tape (you only need to watch from 2:35-3:09 in the video)
- Alphabetize the bills in the cash drawer by serial number
- Create a full line of paper clip jewelry
- Do this with sticky notes
- Make wigs out of the paper shredder remnants
- Using the desk phone as a bola
- Recreating the pointilist works of Georges Seurat with the holes from the paper punch
Then I thought of staging Chiropractic Office Olympics and all the events
- The phone book shred (I am the current defending champ here)
- Chair races
- The monitor toss
- The enhanced high jump (enhanced by attaching electrodes for the electro-muscle stim machine to the competitor and giving them a high voltage jolt)
- File stacking followed by hurdling the stacks
- Patient launch (using the hydraulic adjusting table as a catapult)
- 100 meter spider stomp (we are in the woods and seem to be regularly invaded by arachnids)
Of course, on a slow day, there's also the benefit of having time to generate a blog post idea or two....now if I could just work on computer access at home in order to execute the ideas...
Feel free to add some of your own ideas to either list.
16 comments:
I think you have it well covered! I love chair races... that's one we used to do at the school the week before it opened. =:] My library stool was killer!
Hmm, so its true. Idle hands are the devil's work... Does the boss join in? - Dave
Feel free to add some of your own ideas to either list.
For any work place Olympics I have always pushed to have professional napping included.
Back in the day, you could make crank calls, but caller ID has ruined that fun.
LOL I just watched the Post It note experiment. WOW. I suggest using fire extinguishers to power your chair races ;)
In the cube farms in which I have typically worked, the shooting sports are always popular, particularly the long-distance rubber-band event, in which the contestants compete to determine who can hit a fellow-employee with a rubber band from the greatest number of cubicles away. . .
On slow days, when I was younger, we were very creative about coming up with clever competitions involving the tossing of wadded-up sheets of paper (over the fluorescent light, bank off the pillar, into the wastebasket, etc. . .)
Of course, in the current economic milieu, one worries that one's bosses will begin to wonder why they're paying him to shoot rubber bands, etc. . .
get some nerf guns and reenact famous gangster movie scenes
Hmmm... well, let's not forget the xerox self-portrait. Or attempting to reach nirvana by consuming enough coffee to fuel a South American revolution.
When your eyeballs are visibly quivering in your head, you're just about there.
Sticky notes! That was AWESOME!
There's always the "see who can eat the most stuff from other people's desktop candy dishes" race.
Choir races?? Oh... chair races. Yeah, I guess that would work, too.
So is there any actual work going on at that place?
OK, I'm with Suldog; the sticky-note Slinkys are pretty cool. . . Now I feel really bad that our office only has the kind that all have the glue on the same side, like a pad of checks. . .
Hey Chickie: I am blogging again:
http://byefew812.blogspot.com/ (also, I still mean to mail you one of my paintings... I am just procrastinating terribly!)
ps...my old blogs were as if you care then ox...now i have a new one.(just in case you forgot who I was !)
OOh, I have always hated having to be at a job when there's nothing to do. It's a weird kind of torture--yet it results in a weird kind of bonding, too, as your list attests.
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