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let’s focus on office contests gone awry — Ask a Supervisor

let’s focus on office contests gone awry

Office contests typically go off the rails in methods no ever supposed. (Fortunately for us!)

Some examples which were shared right here previously:

•. “We had a scorching sauce consuming contest at work years in the past that ended with the gang demanding that the contestants cease earlier than they obtained damage (and passing the hat to give you a second prize) after which one contestant threw up within the bushes on the way in which to his bus and the opposite was up all night time and didn’t are available in to work the following day.”

•. “Our work has a horrible ‘who can stroll essentially the most steps’ contest. It’s framed as a health factor, nevertheless it’s fairly ableist and albeit comes off not nice when all of us are working from our houses, are pressured to work extra hours, and a number of people (notably at extra junior ranges) discover it exhausting to search out the time for normal train. So, sorry not sorry, I hooked up my exercise tracker to my siberian husky’s collar and am KILLING it. I’ve made my views identified and nobody listened, so if the doggo wins the prize will go straight to the furloughed staff help fund.”

•. “My dad’s office hosts an annual chili cookoff and everybody would usher in a crockpot of their chili, put it within the kitchen, after which judging and mass chili consumption would occur at lunch. One yr, one in every of his coworkers introduced in an empty crockpot within the morning, took a bowl of chili from each different crockpot and dumped it in his crockpot whereas individuals had been working, stirred it up and known as it his personal chili. He ended up WINNING that yr for his ‘depth of taste,’ and confessed after he obtained requested for the recipe and had no reply. Everybody needed to riot!”

Let’s speak extra about office contests gone terribly unsuitable. Please share your tales within the remark part.

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