May 26, 2005

Bullshit Bingo

Mostly Cajun links to a great office game to play while in meetings:
Bullshit Bingo
Jenn Martinez has this article on this new game. As a frequent attendee at meetings, this new game holds promise. Here’s a teaser:

3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.

4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout “BULLSHIT!”
Oh, yeah! Talk about enhancing your reputation. This will do it. You might want to polish up the ol’ resume’, though…
My first "real" job was for a public aquarium working at maintaining all of the non-living exhibits (CALM DOWN -- I am talking about movie projectors, PA Systems and stuff here, not dead fish). The head of the department I was in was a crashing bore -- very nice but very much into procedure and micro-management. His short meetings usually took four hours and it was almost impossible to not nod off. I was not alone with this assessment. Fortunately, the public exhibits always had priority and I was usually able to have someone at the front desk page me after the meeting had been under way for 30 minutes or so. Got a ten minute re-cap from someone who had to sit through the whole damn thing. I was able to think outside the box, establish my new paradigm and work out a game plan to enable a strategic fit. At the end of the day, I was able to call bullshit! Worked there for three years -- a lot of it was really fun and some great people. A lot of it was mindless bureaucratic stuff... Posted by DaveH at May 26, 2005 10:57 PM
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