The Office Jester… every office needs one to welcome the undercover boss There countless stories in multiple cultures about ancient or medieval kings who would climb down from their pedestals to mingle with their subjects in disguise. The logic was that doing this allowed those kings to stay in touch with their people, their needs, and their problems. The principle behind the show Undercover Boss is supposedly the same. In the show, the boss decides to work as just another employee to learn ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Fails
The Office Jester… every office needs one to point and laugh at office fails We have a long one for you today folks. No, not the post, we mean the video. Although we won’t know how long this post will be till we actually finish writing it. After all, it isn’t all that rare for us to get textual diarrhoea when we’re enjoying ourselves. And, yes we like to talk like the kings of old and use terms like we, us, and garderobe (not in a single sentence though). The medieval theme is strong with us as ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Fun at Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one to lead the fun at work Allow us the latitude to be clichéd once in a while. There is an old world charm in using phrases, idioms, metaphors, and similes that are commonly known. However, instead of being clichéd in all our posts, we’ll just combine all our cliché quota into one post, which as you’ve no doubt figured out by now is this one. This will be something like The One aka Neo – all the anomalies (clichés) will be combined into one unit (this ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Corporate Expert
The Office Jester… every office needs one to sustain the corporate expert The modern day corporate structure is designed to make muppets look like specialists and turn experts into puppets. In other words, the corporate world leans heavily in favour of man management as opposed to expertise. Now, this post isn’t meant to be a slight on corporate managers all over the world as there are actually geniuses out there who truly can get the best out of their teams. Instead, this post, and indeed the ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Millennials Strike Back
The Office Jester… every office needs one for when millennials strike back If you read our last post on millennials at work, then you know precisely the kind of bone the Baby Boomers and the Generation Xers have to pick with the millennials. In fact, as more and more millennials start entering the workplace, the differences are kind of getting accentuated. It has gone as far as to give birth to a couple of internet trends. The subjects of millennials at work and millennials strike back are ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Millennials at Workplace
The Office Jester… every office needs one to keep up with millennials at workplace If you’re not from the millennials generation, then it’s quite likely that you don’t even know what it means. If this is the case, then it’s highly likely that you’re from the Baby Boomer Generation or the Generation X. Ring any bells? No? Let us enlighten you. The Baby Boomer Generation or Generation X includes people who were roughly born between the 1960s and 1980s. Millennials are the next batch i.e. people ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Safety at Workplace
The Office Jester… every office needs one to laugh when people ignore safety at workplace Safety at workplace is a very serious subject. No doubt, you’ve been shown numerous training videos or made to attend, grumblingly we might add, meetings focused around the subject. While businesses force safety at workplace principles down their employees’ throats for their own selfish reasons (liability, liability, and liability), employees can benefit from them too. Most training videos revolving ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Stereotypes
The Office Jester… every office needs one to make fun of all office stereotypes The world is full of stereotypes, isn’t it? And, nowhere is it more prominent than at the workplace. Stereotyping is a subtle, subtle thing. No one is immune to it. Not psychologists. Not journalists. Not even family. Everyone does it. The only difference is that different people do it to different degrees. Stereotyping is more prominent with strangers and unless you’ve been at your current workplace for an ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Epic April Fool’s Day Office Pranks
The Office Jester… every office needs one to come up with epic April Fool’s Day office pranks The first week of April has gone by. Those of you who went through it without incident must be congratulating yourself. If it was up to me, nobody would go through the first week of April without a prank being pulled on them – just ask my colleagues, my wife, my dog, and anyone else unfortunate enough to come into my crosshairs. I know it’s childish but I believe it’s good to be childish for 7 of 365 ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Sarcasm
The Office Jester… every office needs one to make sense of office sarcasm The greatest comedians in the history of mankind will tell you that there’s very little difference between comedy and tragedy. This is precisely why humour is often based around someone else’s misfortune. In fact, the only difference between humour and cynicism is that of perspective. In fact, there are many examples of this minor divide. Consider people who laugh when they see someone slipping on the floor. Consider ... Keep Reading