The Office Jester… every office needs one to make strange colleagues look normal Colleagues are almost always “strange”, “weird”, “obnoxious”, “unusual”, and more often than not, damn annoying. We’ve already covered annoying colleagues before in under the ambit of Office Jester. We’re now going to focus on “strange colleagues” in this post. Fear not, though, gradually, post by post, we’ll get to all those little adjectives. Strange colleagues: everyone has them, no? It’s almost as if it’s an ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: The Entrepreneurial Dream
The Office Jester… every office needs one to ridicule the entrepreneurial dream Everyone wants to live the entrepreneurial dream. Very few people, though, actually pause in their race to the mountain of bliss to consider if it is even realistic. The problem isn’t that the entrepreneurial dream isn’t realistic; the problem is that people’s vision of the said dream is unrealistic. Sure, the entrepreneurial dream entails having tonnes of money, people at your beck and call, and even free time but ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Deceptive Impression Management
The Office Jester… every office needs one to unveil deceptive impression management humorously Deceptive impression management is an old phenomenon that has been around for quite some time. The only difference now is that certain studies have coined the term which has brought the phenomenon into the light. Deceptive impression management, in the simplest of terms, means trying to manage one’s impression in front of someone else through deception. As per the study in question, deceptive ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Knee-Jerk Reactions in Business
The Office Jester… every office needs one for when knee-jerk reactions in business go wrong Business is about taking the right decisions at the right time. While it may all boil down to a simple trade of ‘x’ exchanged for ‘y’, countless decisions need to be made before, during, and after such exchanges. If you take away the importance of these decisions from the concept of business, then you'll be left with nothing but easiness i.e. sitting on your behind all day long, doing nothing of ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Bus Ride to Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one to refresh employees after they take a bus ride to work You know, everyone doesn’t go to work in their own cars. In fact, the vast majority of the global population takes a bus ride to work. The most interesting part of a bus ride to work, (yes, it has interesting aspects. If you don’t think so then you’ve taken one bus ride too many) is the conversations you get to hear. Some of them can be truly memorable. Consider this conversation we overheard the ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Business Communications
The Office Jester… every office needs one to lighten the mood when business communications break down What is the lifeblood of a business? Is it money? Not really, because there are many businesses that have started on a shoestring budget only to have become incredibly successful. Is it the people? No again, because it is very rare for a business to retain its best performing employees and in many cases, successful businesses have high attrition rates. Did I hear you say technology? You must be ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Business Problem-Solving
The Office Jester… every office needs one to take the mickey out of lame business problem-solving techniques How do you define business? Investopedia says, “A business is an organisation or enterprising entity engaged in commercial, industrial or professional activities”. Merriam-Webster defines business as, “the activity of making, buying, or selling goods or providing services in exchange for money”. Dictionary.com has a similar definition of, “the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: First Job Interview
The Office Jester… every office needs one to enact the first job interview ever Ah, job interviews. It’s a curse that never stops working against you unless, of course, you start sitting on the other side of the table. In fact, these days, a professional has to invariably switch jobs to rise up the ladder. Rising to be the top honcho in the same firm you began in is no longer as viable as it was a few decades ago. Some businesses even value diversity of experience in their employees simply ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Miscommunication at Workplace
The Office Jester… every office needs one to see the lighter side of miscommunication at work In the last instalment of the Office Jester, we explained what the giggle loop is with the help of one of the funniest videos we’ve ever seen. That video focused on giggle loops as something that need to be controlled because they find the most inopportune to manifest. Well, it’s not always that giggle loops have bad timing. Sometimes, they come at the most opportune moments. These are moments when ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Giggle Loop
The Office Jester… every office needs one to start off that irresistible giggle loop There are different types of humour, you know. There is the slapstick humour that the majority of people in the world seem to ascribe and, indeed, subscribe to. There is the dark humour that appeals to the melancholic side of many people. Then, there is word based humour and even situational humour. One type of humour that is quite rare is the absurd humour. Absurdity, believe it or not, can result in ... Keep Reading