Mar 26
adminHate it Bored at work, Fun Things To Do At Work
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Arm people with water pistols, Nerf balls or paper wads to assail anyone who is blocking creativity
Ask a work mate if they need a hand, then give them a photo copy of your hand
At the office, make your garbage can into your in-tray
Bring a different tablecloth and flowers for the lunch room everyday for a week
Call everyone “ Bob” or “Richard”, even the females. Down south, “Richard-Bob”
Change the speed dial settings on a co workers phone
Change your accent every three minutes.
Create the worst case scenario for your project – feel free to exaggerate
Decorate your office with fun posters – add a humor section to the bulletin board
Dress up like a flight attendant and stand in an elevator, when people get on hand them peanuts and tell them to enjoy their flight.
Give crazy awards fior the sexiest phone voice, biggest blunder, Most likely to OD on coffee, Largest toe contest or whatever
Have fun with a photocopier or scanner
Have swivel chair races at work
Hold an awards ceremony during a particular stressful period 
Hold meetings out of the board room – at a park, picnic site or a bowling alley
Mail an anonymous joke-of-the-week to someone on a regular basis
Move your desk into the elevator and ask anyone that comes in if they have an appointment.
Penalize people who talk about work when they are not at work
Play Nerf Frisbee in the office
Pray to the gods of the water cooler and leave various sacrifices.
Proudly show everyone your calculator and hand out cigars. Tell them your computer just had a baby.
Put a sign on your photocopier that says “New Copier – Voice activated – please speak your command”. Watch the fun
Send odd emails from other peoples computers – Pretend you are them.
Use a banana or any other vegetable as a pointer for your next presentation
Water the fake office plants.
Wear your thong over your trousers and act surprised when anyone notices
When people send you unsolicited faxes – Send them back to them about 600 times
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Having an ongoing discuss (it seems) on that wacky, outta-control Hawaiian shirt Friday. The world is ending!
Mar 19
adminHawaiian Shirt Friday Generalisimo casual friday, fop, lehmans, maui
A fop. Not "Fraternal Order of Police".
George Carlin famously quipped “You know what you almost never see anymore? A FOP.”
You know, he’s right. So when one does pop up, it peaks my interest. Enter Mr Dick Fuld of Lehman’s (think ‘large financial disaster’).
Come to find out that Lehman’s, being one of the last to adopt a casual Friday, went hard on anyone who did not dress to the nine’s as himself.
“You know what? Fine. If these jokers wanted to dress like slobs outside the office, there wasn’t much Dick could do about it, other than sighing audibly and acting put out.”
Mr Fuld must have been a bundle of fun to be around, much less work for.
Full article here >
In case you want more of an upbeat idea, here is a link to some webcams on Maui. Drink it in, and dream of the tradewinds….
Vintage Hawaiian Shirt
Elsewhere on the blogosphere….
A new twist on the definition of casual friday.
And it’s REAL casual fridays at the white house
Mar 12
adminLove it PHD, puzzle
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Hawaii finally got around to promoting its legendary surfers. Can’t think of a better feel-good message for Hawaiian shirt Friday. From the article…
“The first order of business at the Hawaii State Legislature on Tuesday wasn’t about declining tourism or mass transit.
Instead, surfing made its way to the floor. The Senate and House of Representatives honored nine surfing icons at the Capitol. Buffalo Keaulana, Ben Aipa, Clyde Aikau, Mitchell Alapa, Derek and Michael Ho were in attendance, and received certificates of appreciation. They donned the traditional Island “formal wear” of Aloha shirts, shoes, and blazers for the momentous occasion, as their loved ones looked on from the upper balcony of the Senate. More“
I would rather be surfing on a Friday right now, what about you? What would you rather be doing right now, say money was not an issue and you didn’t need to work, where and what would you be doing?
It’s a nice mental vacation.
Had to have a post at an article today, there was a wonderful lady with a huge education and bigger smile who has written a great article on over-the-top casual wear. This from a woman with a huge publishing career on inter-gender communications! Here’s her article
And on the faaaaar opposite end of the brainpower spectrum, I found Rory Cooper at the Daily Caller writing about how casual attire at the White House means that there is no dignity in the presidency. One extreme to the other, no thinking in between. “I’m tired” to “I have leukemia” in one gigantically absurdist delusional leap.
“Hello? Earth to Rorster: the president’s from Hawaii. No prigs like you in Hawaii”. (Knock on forhead, ongoing tuning-fork style ringing tone eminates).
This weirdo doesn’t get a link.
From the blogosphere….
A Friday puzzle – http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/its-the-friday-puzzle-50/
An older post. Normal Boy’s first casual Friday experience. I know it traumatized me…. http://normalboy.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/casual-friday/
Mar 05
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Shirtsleeves warm is coming
After the snowmageddon, the snowpocalypse, and the snowacane, thank the Big Guy upstairs that March is finally here.
It may not be warm yet, but in the minds of people who wear Hawaiian shirts on Friday, it is a glimmer of warmth… through the ice.
Maybe we’re back to snormal.
Around here were winding down the afternoon, and for all sakes and purposes the phones can remain unanswered. It’s the weekend!
Around the blogosphere, the bitchesoffashion want to replace hawaiian shirt friday with shredded jeans. All good, as long as it gets your head in the right state. http://bitchesoffashion.blogspot.com/2010/03/bitch-day-shabby-chic.html.
LEWP is celebrating his own Hawaiian shirt Friday, I hope the guy in the glasses knows he has a collectors shirt http://lewp.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/yay-its-hawaiian-shirt-friday/
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