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Productivity Tip: Grilling At Work (Morale Boosters)
Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 05/09/08 at 12:05:41 pm
I haven’t come up with a good productivity tip in a while but I think this one is important. I mentioned grilling at work in the title but it could be any fun thing that you can do to help break up the time at your day job.
Now that Spring has finally hit Minnesota I had purchased a cheap $10 charcoal grill at Wal-Mart. We have this nice cement patio area out back with picnic tables and everything and it’s never used by any of the businesses in our complex. Up until recently we have only used it for storing e-waste and cardboard boxes that we need to get rid of. Over the last few weeks we have been randomly picking days where we will bring in some brats or burgers and our lunch hour will be spent firing up the grill and cooking them to deliciousness.
The best part about grilling at work is you get a level of freedom that makes you feel at home. It’s the same reason that I sometimes walk around in my socks at work and I have a growing collection of desk toys that I can play with, not because I want to just slack off but because I’m in the office for 9+ hours a day and if it were a more strict environment I wouldn’t be able to stand the monotony. I think that alone plays a big part in why I job hopped so much when I was younger, I’ll get bored or I’ll stop liking or even caring about my job and I want to move on to something else. My tasks here are just as stressful if not more then any other place I’ve ever worked at but because of the relaxed environment I’ve been with this company for almost 2 years and I’m just as content with coming into work today as I was when I started.
Some companies will have morale boosters set up for their staff; they will do drawings or have little random perks that will get people excited about doing their work. With my company it’s a little different, everyone has their own work load and we’re so busy that if we want that sort of thing we need to create it ourselves. The sad part is I think there are plenty of other people that are in the same situation and they are too afraid to pin a colorful poster on the wall let alone launch a screaming monkey at a coworker. The point is morale boosters can make all the difference.
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I’ll take mine very done, like burned nicely. Looks good enough to eat.
Comment by gram388 — May 9, 2008 #
1. I need a grill at work baaadly.
2. In my socks right now!
3. I need to find my flying monkey….
Comment by Nick Davis — May 9, 2008 #