Christy, Butlerian Jihadist: I once worked in an office with terrible morale. To address this problem, Management announced that we were getting a puppy. The puppy was coming at the end of the month. There was a contest to name the puppy. When the puppy arrived, it was a plushie that you had to go into the boss's office to hug

I once worked in an office with terrible morale. To address this problem, Management announced that we were getting a puppy. The puppy was coming at the end of the month. There was a contest to name the puppy. When the puppy arrived, it was a plushie that you had to go into the boss's office to hug

We knew from the jump that there was no universe where we were getting a puppy, so we had a lot of fun that month speculating on how Management was going to fuck this up. Most of the names submitted for the contest were rejected for being "rude" and "unprofessional"

It wasn't a very good plushie. Not nearly squishy enough.

So did you actually work at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, or…?

...Lumon?

This should be one of those Harvard Review management case studies that 19 yo university business students have to dissect. Can’t decide if it comes before or after the New Coke debacle.

I've read accounts of people working themselves to death in Soviet gulags that were less depressing than the story.

"Extra hour in the ball pit" vibes.

Did morale improve?

This inspires me not to work harder, but to flip a table

Flip a table for me. For moral support (given I can't do it myself ._.)

"Puppy McPupperson?" (Yes, I read the whole thread.)

Suggestion…

Holy cow I remember when this happened & it's what I thought of too

Ok but that boss had some weird fetish watching people hug that plushie im positive

Funny how the business world so often attracts people who are so bad at understanding people or even just being people.

WTF!?!

Christ Almighty, that’d be it for me 😫

Worked on a contract that, to win, the company bid us all at 45 hrs/week with 40 hrs pay. We had to put in and record 45 hrs. But payroll system couldn't not pay us, so we got $0.01 / hr. Oh, and if you took a day vacation, time sys didn’t allow overtime. So you owed 5 hrs by taking 8 off.

What the actual fuck

Oh, and at the time, the company ran a “100%” campaign, with small cash awards, which we morphed into “100 cent” awards on cubical walls. 3 of my coworkers took a year off, in the office, just refused to actually do any productive work. Came in every day.

Good for them

Could you throw the puppy at the boss's head?

Was management actively trying to provoke resignations?

that’s when the office mysteriously catches fire

Omgggg

as a person currently working in an office with terrible morale, this post almost made me cry lmao

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