Office Capers: Outside the comfort zone
I have a new boss and a new team. I’m reluctant to step out of my comfort zone. But I’m looking forward to the new adventures.
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Office humour, working insights, observations from my different careers & workplaces, business & professional viewpoints
Day Zero
I returned to a familiar campus for day zero recruitments. It was a professional step up and a personal reset.
Office Capers: The office band
IdeaSmith: We ought to have an office band SNC: I was in a band in college! IdeaSmith: What? Doing what? PJ Rani: Playing the drum? Being the drum? IdeaSmith: Oh shut it…so how about it BAA? BAA: Why me? I don’t sing! SFOS: You ought to be out-lawed from being a…
Office Capers: Let’s get the show on the road!!
The travails at office today – BAA : Today I had my first crush Us: Your first ever? BAA (who has a new car): Yeah…I’ve been careful with the car all month Us: Oh..crash, not crush BAA: Yes, this guy came by and I sort of swung out. It wasn’t…
Stat-check At Work
There are days I hate my job for how little time it leaves me for the rest of my life. And other days, I’m grateful for my job for the very same reason. This has been a week, month, no….six whole months of mad work. Time has passed and I…
Office Capers – Tech Blunder Chronicles
Today I put my techno-greek foot back in my mouth (again! again! again!) at the office. SNC: Do you know the iRiver?Me: The what river?SNC: Okay, you don’t know it.Me: I didn’t hear you…what river?SNC: The iRiverMe: I don’t know it. What’s that?SNC: Its like the iPod, an MP3 playerSFOS:…
Crazy Tuesday
I am slowly but surely sinking in the quicksand of work. I initially called it a ‘sea of work’ but I realised I can swim. This is exactly like quicksand, the more you struggle, the faster you go down. Maybe I should stop telling people about my ‘dream job’. Every…
Anonymity versus Openness
Is it about whose opinion matters? This weekend I socialised with my colleagues. We went for a movie, we did dinner, we went book-shopping, we went dancing. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. We also had some ‘moments of truth’ that could have lead to frank discussions but somehow didn’t. At the…
Office Capers: Haute Couture Boots
Men have no appreciation for haute couture!!!!!!!! At least the two jokers I sit next do, don’t! SNC: So why are you in casuals on a work-day? Me: I’m not in casuals! SFOS: So what are these then? Me: I’m not wearing jeans! SNC: So jeans are the only thing…
Office Capers: Cleanliness Is Next To Nothingness
I share an office cubicle with two colleagues. Are all men so untidy??? Arrrggghhh…I have about three seizures a week and one major case of heartburn once a fortnight. Put it all down to the ‘let’s call it creative’ habits of my cube-ies (cubbies? Sure, we do occupy a cubby-hole…