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He's Got A Little Pup Tent
Aug. 11th, 2004 11:41 pmOh, Amish in the City, you started with such promise, but you've fallen down and become just another season of the Real World. I'm sad.
Speaking of Television, why does TiVo, through its wishlists, think that The Pebbles and Bam-Bam Show is "Gay"?
Today we did more work that could all be called "busy work". Busy work for people in 5th grade. As a part of my team's meeting, Lisa asked me to have the team give themselves an "unofficial" name. Other teams in my department have these names, my old team, the Automation Team, had "auto shop" as our unofficial name. It was announced a few times as we won the departmental quality and productivity awards. Otherwise, the name is meaningless.
The team was as thrilled about the assignment as I was. After a hilarious "respect in the workplace" discussion about the dress code (Just how do you tell someone that their butt is too big to wear that?), we threw out some names, most of them pretty stupid (The Talking Heads?). It was looking like "troublemakers" was going to win until Yohan suggested "The Justice League". I threw back "The Legion of Doom", but Lisa wouldn't have it, so Justice League it is.
What's good about this is now I have a theme for my incentive game. We have a project to get people to switch to our self-entered, online service, and I want to reward those who get them to do it. We used to have a similar game in Automation where they had a car, and those not on the callout team were little animals. If they got someone to automate, the car moved forward. If they went enough spaces and ran over the animal, both would win a prize. We called it the "Road Kill Game" and we loved it, even if management thought it was gross.
After the meeting, I asked everyone to pick a member of the league, so I can create new players on the board. I think we'll have them move towards a villain, then have some roll of the dice or something to beat up the villain. I'll think of something. They'll win an ice cream coupon or something like that. Oh, since I really don't get to play, I let Dominick take The Flash, and I took Green Arrow. Green Arrow and the bearded version of Aquaman are some of the hottest characters in the DC Universe.
Still, I had to tell people that Spiderman, Wolverine and Thor aren't in the JLA. My geeky knowledge of all of this worried many on my team.
The company just loves silly little incentive games. Even though management hated the idea of "Road Kill" they applauded the creative thought, and that it motivated our folks. The team was working on coming up with another game for themselves. Many teams have a "wheel of fortune" or something where they can win something, like an hour off, or something. Truly, it has nothing to do with job performance or serving our client or anything important, it's more on the child-like levels of winning the lottery. Something for nothing.
The team cam up with a game that involved with throwing beanbags into a bunch of cans, so I suggested we just get a Toss Across game and make the X's and O's with prizes. Everyone liked the idea, so tonight I bought the game. As I was going through Toys R' Us, I saw the Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes. Now Chris, (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oakleycub), Matty (mattycub), and Scott (xkot) all have some of the burly figures, so I felt I needed one to keep Yukon Cornelius company on the kitchen counter.
Chris has the Ben Choppin and Telly Photo figures. I didn't want to get the same ones, so I found Red Wood.
Kids blow up his pup tent.
Seriously, it's an inflatable pup tent. He's a ranger, here to protect you from, bears or something.
Speaking of Television, why does TiVo, through its wishlists, think that The Pebbles and Bam-Bam Show is "Gay"?
Today we did more work that could all be called "busy work". Busy work for people in 5th grade. As a part of my team's meeting, Lisa asked me to have the team give themselves an "unofficial" name. Other teams in my department have these names, my old team, the Automation Team, had "auto shop" as our unofficial name. It was announced a few times as we won the departmental quality and productivity awards. Otherwise, the name is meaningless.
The team was as thrilled about the assignment as I was. After a hilarious "respect in the workplace" discussion about the dress code (Just how do you tell someone that their butt is too big to wear that?), we threw out some names, most of them pretty stupid (The Talking Heads?). It was looking like "troublemakers" was going to win until Yohan suggested "The Justice League". I threw back "The Legion of Doom", but Lisa wouldn't have it, so Justice League it is.
What's good about this is now I have a theme for my incentive game. We have a project to get people to switch to our self-entered, online service, and I want to reward those who get them to do it. We used to have a similar game in Automation where they had a car, and those not on the callout team were little animals. If they got someone to automate, the car moved forward. If they went enough spaces and ran over the animal, both would win a prize. We called it the "Road Kill Game" and we loved it, even if management thought it was gross.
After the meeting, I asked everyone to pick a member of the league, so I can create new players on the board. I think we'll have them move towards a villain, then have some roll of the dice or something to beat up the villain. I'll think of something. They'll win an ice cream coupon or something like that. Oh, since I really don't get to play, I let Dominick take The Flash, and I took Green Arrow. Green Arrow and the bearded version of Aquaman are some of the hottest characters in the DC Universe.
Still, I had to tell people that Spiderman, Wolverine and Thor aren't in the JLA. My geeky knowledge of all of this worried many on my team.
The company just loves silly little incentive games. Even though management hated the idea of "Road Kill" they applauded the creative thought, and that it motivated our folks. The team was working on coming up with another game for themselves. Many teams have a "wheel of fortune" or something where they can win something, like an hour off, or something. Truly, it has nothing to do with job performance or serving our client or anything important, it's more on the child-like levels of winning the lottery. Something for nothing.
The team cam up with a game that involved with throwing beanbags into a bunch of cans, so I suggested we just get a Toss Across game and make the X's and O's with prizes. Everyone liked the idea, so tonight I bought the game. As I was going through Toys R' Us, I saw the Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes. Now Chris, (
oakleycub), Matty (mattycub), and Scott (xkot) all have some of the burly figures, so I felt I needed one to keep Yukon Cornelius company on the kitchen counter. Chris has the Ben Choppin and Telly Photo figures. I didn't want to get the same ones, so I found Red Wood.
Kids blow up his pup tent.
Seriously, it's an inflatable pup tent. He's a ranger, here to protect you from, bears or something.
