One of the crucial common “ask the readers” posts final yr was on uncommon however enjoyable workplace traditions. Right here’s a few of what received shared final yr:
• We had The Group Plant. It was a pleasant atypical workplace houseplant in a basket, and it didn’t belong to anybody particularly. More often than not it lived on a credenza in the midst of our open house. However typically the crew would simply determine that you just deserved or wanted to have The Group Plant in your desk for some time. You would possibly discover it in your desk when you received a promotion or had a brand new grandchild, or in case your automobile was broken in a fender-bender or somebody in your account crew left the corporate, or when you had a chilly and had been dragging. It appeared on my desk the week my father died and stayed there for some time, after which one among my co-workers accomplished a troublesome undertaking and I handed it on to him.
• My ground has the entire lights off. We don’t like fluorescent lights. New individuals get a handful of poop emoji erasers to make use of as weapons to toss if you want somebody’s consideration however they’ve headphones on.
• I labored in a really informal office (shorts, denims, principally something goes so long as it’s not too revealing), and we might often have a “Formal Friday” (like informal Friday, however the reverse, get it?). Some individuals would simply gown workplace snazzy, some would put on one thing you’d put on to a cocktail social gathering, and a few individuals used the chance to bust out their 80s/90s attire with shoulder pads and chunky gold jewellery. Good enjoyable. (And, after all, completely optionally available.)
• We have now interns who graduate into everlasting workers after ending their PhDs. We have now an odd custom of creating individuals recite their thesis matter in iambic pentameter.
• I’ve simply joined a crew the place individuals have large grownup terry material bibs to put on at lunch time. (The sort that may be purchased in bulk for nursing properties.) Mine was bestowed on me this week and I’m surprisingly pleased about it.
There was a clamor to share uncommon workplace traditions once more this yr, so have it at: please share within the feedback!