Weird work games?

[BlaqueKatt]

cubeicle volleyball-I own a small sized beachball(about softball sized) and we played volleyball over the cube walls.

"stennis"-short for station tennis(store was "video Station") made paddles out of video boxes and hit a bouncy ball against the wall-over a line was 10 points under was nothing and it had to bounce once.

we also set up a mini golf course in the store due to the many rows of movies.

Dish hockey-hockey with two brooms and a stainless steel cat dish-very loud

"fashion show"-either trying on the really ugly clothes, or making new ones out of packing materials(I made a bubble wrap evening gown, and a wedding dress complete with veil and bouquet out of dry cleaning bags)

"returns Bingo"-pick a page out of a current catalog and attempt to find one of each product on the page to inspect(worked in the returns dept of a mail order clothing/home decor company)

[powerboy]

Well lets see, all the games I played is

1. Pallet jack Races
2. Block Ball (base ball, but with 2 inch blocks of wood, and stick)
3. Block Foot Ball (tossing a block of wood back and fourth)
4. Block golf
5. chair races
6. Play Wrestling (I am the Champ btw.)
7. Block Bowling
8. Rubberband Guns
9. Hide and Seek
10. Rubberband wars

All of these are manager approved. I made a Wrestling Championship Belt out of old card board.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Actually pallet jack racing was done with management approval. The night stockers would get called to the back for clean up around a half hour before closing and then races would begin. The entire store knew about it and the back area was big enough that there was an entire area that could be safely done for races. I think we never had a single injury in the year we had them. Now true people could get hurt but back then if the manager was having fun with it I was all for it.

As for case tossing. There's actually a very good reason why the game exists at our store. (Mind you it's not a weekly event. It's usually a 3-5 times a year event.) Some of our vendors write up out of codes and don't take the product with them. So it becomes fair game.

Is your store hiring?

Anyhow, a few things we used to do before corporate rolled out its "no fun at work" policy (okay, there is no such policy but we just don't have any fun at work):

-baseball with big wads of tape and boards broken off pallets.
-calling the rock radio station and requesting songs (not really a game, but something that seemed verboten so we tried it anyway)
-going to a certain spot upstairs in the backroom where we could reach over a low wall and pull up the ceiling tiles over the salesfloor, and throwing little balls of tape at the customers below.

[ArenaBoy]

Coneshoes

Similar to horseshoes except you'd be using a huge traffic cone, and throw it onto the truck. You had to make sure it landed on a stack and the stack did not fall over. We do this despite the fact that they put up a metal cage to stop that silliness.

[Ringtail Z28]

Zone Bowling. Usually done in the toys or electronics department. When those departments would be thrashed at closing time we would pull everything off the shelf and "bowl" them down the aisles they belong. Not much of a games.

Who could get the most carts stuck together. This one me and a couple of guys came up with to mess with customers. Kinda speaks for itself.

Diaper war. In the backroom we would take these really big rubber bands used on pallets or bungee cords and use them to launch diapers, unused of course..

[Greenday]

One of my co-workers and I always played poker at night when the bosses had left. Great way to kill time. Also played a lot of Bullsh*t. We had Uno cards to use but after awhile they disappeared. We also would shoot eachother with rubber bands and have contests to see who had the best aim, but one of my coworkers was lazy and wouldn't always pick up the rubber bands so our boss told us to knock it off.

[Caveat Emptor]

At my old job we once played some D&D when it was late at night and dead slow (call center). We always responded to any calls / tickets in a timely manner, but were still reprimanded the next day because people at other 24 hr desks saw it and complained that it was "unprofessional."

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Tape ball "assassin." Public television. We used tape balls to dress cables and dutchman sets. When we peeled it off after the shoot, we wadded it into balls of various sizes (smallest one the size of a golfball, largest one which got stuffed into my locker as a gag, was the size of a two year old.) and used them to brain each other.

Unsuspecting crew member would be walking down the hall minding his own business, and bam! Out of nowhere, a stinging missle between the shoulder blades.

People would set up ambushes. I personally sat on top of a light ladder in a pitch dark studio for half an hour, just so I could plug the other cameraman when he walked in.

[Athena]

We used to get out of date pats of butter, put three finger holes in them (like a bowling ball) and stick them in the freezer until they were rock hard. Then we'd line up all the out of date drinks in the hallway and go bowling. The loser had to clean up. We'd also pile up bags of out of date chips and then roll into them really fast on a wheely office chair. There were all played with the approval and participation of the manager....i miss him.

[tollbaby]

Tape ball "assassin." Public television. We used tape balls to dress cables and dutchman sets. When we peeled it off after the shoot, we wadded it into balls of various sizes (smallest one the size of a golfball, largest one which got stuffed into my locker as a gag, was the size of a two year old.) and used them to brain each other.

RK, have you ever walked out of the studio with big strips of gaffer tape still stuck to your pants? Probably the most embarassing thing I ever did at the tv studio was to leave in a rush to go have dinner at a fancy restaurant with my parents... and as I walk in, all covered in gaffer tape, everyone just stared at me LOL I got the feeling that the maître d' wanted to tell me that the service entrance was in the rear

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I have walked out with tape on my pants, fake snow in my hair (weather girl), wires sticking out of various clothing articles, tools hanging off, you name it.

It used to embarass me a little all going out with the crew when we were all dressed in studio blacks. I felt like we all looked like a bunch of really over the hill goths.

[Rahmota]

When i worked security i would occasionally participate in pallet jack races through the warehouse I guarded. Also I'd use one to get through my rounds a lot quicker. I got to be pretty good at moving them thigns along.

Also playing swordfights with scrap PVC pipe on construction sites.

Water balloons at the dealership. Ever fill a weather balloon with water? they will hold an ungodly amount and when full you cannot lift them with three people. Its like Queen Kong's breast implant.

Foot races at the dealership.

Handball in the washbay with tennis balls , rubber balls and golf balls. Sometimes all at the same time.

[skeptic53]

Ice fights.

Back in the days of Farrell's, the fountain crew used to run around the restaurant after closing throwing ice at each other. They carried a supply in their apron.

One night while I was closing the kitchen they were running around and around the grill-fryers-prep-table island. I had just cleaned the main fryer, a once-a-week job. It was turned off but the walls were still warm enough to melt the new grease, it was warm but not hot. Normally at that time of night the fryer would merely be turned off and the oil would still be *very* hot.

One of the fountain guys slipped on the wet wooden floor mat and his arm went in the fryer up past the elbow. The oil was warm enough that he thought his arm was getting deep-fried. He panicked, peed his pants, and screamed so much the entire restaurant crew came running. When the AM found out what had happened he laughed so hard he nearly peed himself also.

[repsac]

skeptic53 I nearly peed my pants laughing at that too...

Hmm. Games...

Well, some I remember are more pranks than anything.

Random Cones. Go grab a plumber's cone and put it in the middle of the ailse. See how many customers avoid it. Or worse, put a sign on it pointing up and see how many customers stop and stare at the ceiling trying to figure out what's up there.

Out of Order: Put an out of order sign on something. Anything. My favorite choices were random shopping carts, the back of a manager, or a single pole in the middle of an ailse.

Lawnmower Races: Every night, my Lowe's store had to bring in the power equipment. So, we'd all pile out there, crank them up and usually have a quick race around the parking lot. First one back to the "start" position got to go home after they had gotten back in the store. Management rather got a kick out of this one...

World's longest Cart Train: After work, we'd see how many of the shopping carts we could tie together. My record was around eighty. It took three people to get it in the store. One (myself) steering, and two pushing.

[mrtauntaun]

We used to play Donut Olympics, where we would throw Donut holes across the store and try to chomp them out of the air. Fun, but very messy.

And back when one store I was working at was closing, we had some very bare shelves and hooks. So we took all the place holder price tags (the ones you leave on the hooks so you remember what was there to reorder), put them on one section of an empty wall, and threw a frisbee at the hooks. If you ringed a hook, you grabbed the tag. Whoever had the most cash at the end of the day won
It was a lot of fun, but as we were closing, a one time only game.