Happy Friday! I hope you have enjoyed these first days of spring even if they have not been very spring-like.  I have done some deep Internet research this week to offer you some tips on how to make this Friday fun and memorable at work.

Enjoy!

Leonard

MAKE TODAY “FUN FRIDAY” AT YOUR OFFICE

Start the day by sending an e-mail to everyone saying that there are donuts in the break room, if someone says they were all gone then just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, “Oh you’ve got to be faster than that.” See how long it takes until the last person stops believing you.   Repeat at lunch time sending out an email that there is free pizza.

Send email to yourself engaging yourself in a spirited debate about the direction of one of your company’s products/services or the NCAA basketball tournament. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask them to settle the disagreement.

Compose all your e-mails using the wingdings font.

Put a sign on your photocopier that says “New Copier – Voice activated – please speak your command” Just sit back, watch and listen.

Call your boss’s voice mail and leave the following message: “Sir, we’re not sure if you wanted us to do it, you know, after what happened, so, well, we went ahead and did it anyway. If you don’t like it, we can probably take it out, but we’ll have to charge you extra. Please return this call immediately. Thanks.”

Enlist a co-worker and have a contest to see who can sign the boss’s email address up for the most email alerts/newsletters in an hour.

Make today the day that you determine just how many cups of coffee is “too many.”

Bring a karaoke machine and set it up in the break room, only have Christmas songs or songs with yodeling.

For one hour, page yourself on the intercom every five minutes; do not disguise your voice.

For one hour, after every sentence, say ‘Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in “That is a great idea, Mon.”

For one hour, speak with an accent (French, Indian, Elmer Fudd, etc.)

Put hole reinforcing circles on the center of your eyeglasses. If you don’t wear glasses try to cover your nose with them.

If a co-worker sneezes, quickly yell “SHUT UP!” If they sneeze a second time, follow up with “I SAID SHUT UP!”  A third time, leave the room while saying “NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME!”

Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. “That’s a good point Sparky.” “No I’m sorry I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi.”

Thought for the Week

There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.  ~David Letterman

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Happy Friday! Happy Spring!!  Congratulations, you have survived the winter of 2013-2014!!!  As we turn the page to a new season, let us pause for just a moment to reflect on the passing of Old Man Winter.

OLD MAN WINTER

(with an apology to William Shakespeare)

This hath surely been a winter of discontent,

Old Man Winter hath chilled us ‘till we have turned blue,

He hath sleeted on us time and time again,

He hath made us sore from fortnight after fortnight of shoveling,

He hath iced our walks ‘till we have fallen down yonder slippery slope,

And he has wronged us time and time again!

What’s in a name? That which we call winter by any other name would feel just as cold.

To thaw or not to thaw: that is the question:

Whether ‘tis Nobler in the mind and body to suffer

The wind chills and snow storms of an outrageous winter,

Or to take up plow and salt against this season of troubles?

Frost-bitten Friends, Raw Romans, chilled countrymen, lend me your ear muffs;

I come to bury Old Man Winter, not to praise him.

The wrath of winter often lingers on;

The good is oft forgotten;

So let it be with Old Man Winter.

The Nobel Weatherman hath told you Old Man Winter was historic:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Old Man Winter answer’d it.

He was hardly my friend, not to me nor to any of you:

But yon Weatherman says he was historic;

And yon Weatherman is an honorable man.

Some winters are great, some winters achieve greatness, and some winters are just a royal pain.

One touch of Old Man Winter makes the whole world cold.

You all did welcome him once, but he wore out said welcome:

You all do know this mantle: I remember

The first time ever Old Man Winter put it on;

‘Twas on a late fall’s evening, in his tent,

That day he overcame the Winter Solstice:

Look, in this place ran El Nino’s dagger through:

See what a rent the envious Polar Vortex made:

Through this the much-anticipated Warm Front stabbed;

And as he plucked his cursed steel away,

Which all the while ran melting snow, great Old Man Winter fell.

O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!

Then I, and you, and all of us sunk down in the slush,

Here was a Winter! When comes such another?

Now let it work. Spring, thou art afoot,

Take thou what course thou wilt!

Thought for the Week

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.  ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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