Weird work games?

[MadMike]

Sometimes when it was a slow night, the guy who had the aisle next to mine used to play a "game" where he'd grab something off one of his shelves, and lob it over the shelf at me. I thought it was funny, and returned the favor whenever I could.

Only problem was, he had more items to choose from than I did. He had the paper products, so he could toss just about anything over -- paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, etc.

Me? I had the soaps and cleaning products. About the only thing I had that was safe to toss was the fabric softener sheets. Somehow, I don't think he would have thought it was funny if I had hurled a thing of bleach at him.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Back at the fast food joint, we'd have bun frisbee-any buns that go rock hard became frisbees. We'd also draw faces on eggs with Sharpie markers, and pretend to have conversations with them, or say that they were lost and hold Easter eggs hunts. We'd also occationally have sword fights with (old and unsellable) chicken drumsticks.

[Discourtesy Clerk]

Being that we're mostly young, rowdy sorts on the courtesy clerk team, there's a LOT of messing around on the job. Most of it just involves throwing stuff at each other, playing jokes on co-workers, leaving strange displays in the breakroom...or this stuff.

Electric Cart Racing - When both electric shopping carts get out at around the same time, we tend to try and race each other to the charging station. What's comical about this is that we can all walk faster than the top speed of those things, so it's a very, very slow race. We still act like it's NASCAR, though.

Competitive Cartpushing - Seeing how far away you can be from the cart stack and still fire a cart into it accurately. A fun sport, but it's not pretty when a customer gets in the way...

Over-the-Shelf Volleyball - Two co-workers in adjacent aisles, tossing a piece of trash/defective merchandise/unbreakable item back and forth over the shelving at each other. Only safe when both the boss and most of our customers have left for the day.

Checker Target Practice - Throwing objects at checkers from challenging distances. Great fun, because we know they can't leave the checkstand to come throttle us. Only attempted on the "nice" checkers...who usually return fire, sometimes with things that hurt. Grapes to the ass at high velocity, definitely painful. I squeaked.

Boredom is simply prohibited in our store.

[B&NGoddess]

at my first job, we used to have scan gun wars. we'd crouch in our little register area and and start shooting. the first one who went blind due to laser in the eye lost.

at the B&N, cardboard cd displays are emptied and made into a kind of skee-ball thing. rustle up a ping pong ball and a scoreboard and let the games begin.

the receivers try to pile up the boxes to outrageous heights and then write the date when accomplished on the wall. there are some dates that go at least 30 feet.

we also had a contest where we kept track of how many times two people were called to the front. management was taking bets.

before we had armored car service, we had the wheel of misfortune. whoever was taking the money to the bank took the loser of the wheel with him. the money taker was usually the slightly weird manager that no one wanted to hang out with alone.

[BookstoreEscapee]

at my first job, we used to have scan gun wars. we'd crouch in our little register area and and start shooting. the first one who went blind due to laser in the eye lost.

at the B&N, cardboard cd displays are emptied and made into a kind of skee-ball thing. rustle up a ping pong ball and a scoreboard and let the games begin.

the receivers try to pile up the boxes to outrageous heights and then write the date when accomplished on the wall. there are some dates that go at least 30 feet.

we also had a contest where we kept track of how many times two people were called to the front. management was taking bets.

before we had armored car service, we had the wheel of misfortune. whoever was taking the money to the bank took the loser of the wheel with him. the money taker was usually the slightly weird manager that no one wanted to hang out with alone.

Never thought of those....

We had swordfights with the shipping tubes that rolled maps sometimes come it.

When we used to take the money to the bank it was usually one of the receiving guys, if they weren't too busy, or the community relations manager. (I liked to take the receiving manager cuz he was a body builder, or one of the other guys cuz he was a (hot) muscular Harley dude. Made me feel safe and they got to carry the sack of rolled change on the way back.) Then we'd stop for donuts on the way back (with a few hundred bucks in change in the trunk...).

OT, but the first time I went to the bank was about a month after I started there. I was by myself with $14,000. . Though the biggest deposit I ever did was $31,000 and I did not go by myself with that. If they had tried I would have refused.