The Office Jester… every office needs one to make fun of people’s obsession with technology The other day, we were in the middle of a debate between two friends. The subject of that war was eBooks vs. real books. Now, logically, I knew the eBook guy should win but art isn't always about logic. After all, you just have to look at all the plastic surgeries gone wrong in the world to understand how beauty and grace are actually about the sum of individual parts as opposed to the individual parts. ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Nice at Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one to poke fun at people who turn even being nice at work into a competition If there’s one thing that working people complain about, it’s office politics. It’s the fact that people can't be nice to each other at work. In fact, you must've started a story about office politics to someone by saying similar words to “why can't people be nice at work”. Everyone should be nice at work, right? Right? After all, you’re in it together. If one person messes up, ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Technology Orientation
The Office Jester… every office needs one to show everyone the light side of technology orientation New technologies are a boon for most businesses and the bane for most employees. This directly results in technology orientations being a pain for most employees and a promise for most businesses. At no time in the history of humanity were new technologies and business technology orientations as important as they are today. The reason is simple. It is the speed with which the world is throwing ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Reverse Psychology at Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one to have fun with reverse psychology at work What is the one fantasy of all bosses? Do you know what kind of dreams entrepreneurs have? If you’re an employee it should be fairly obvious to you. Bosses dream of employees who enjoy their work. Their fantasy is of workers who love coming to work and have more fun at work than anywhere else. Hogwash! Or Hogwarts since we’re in imagining fantastic workers and where to find them! There’s a serious discrepancy ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Typical Coworkers
The Office Jester… every office needs one to group people into typical co-worker categories Coworkers have always been the subject of ridicule. Even we have covered the subject of colleagues a number of times in our Office Jester series and we only curate the best videos on the internet. Can you imagine how many such videos must be out there? Heck, can you imagine how many weirdo colleagues there must be in the world if so many people are producing videos on weirdo colleagues? It must be a ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Dream IT Attitude
The Office Jester… every office needs one explain why the dream IT attitude won’t work Isn't it a joy to see someone struggling with some IT equipment and then having to deal with a grumpy IT guy who is secure enough in his job to give him the infamous IT attitude? Yes, there is indeed a hint of schadenfreude involved in this but the humour side of thing is less immoral. After all, haven’t you seen kids laugh at someone falling on his bum? That isn't schadenfreude because it is unlikely that ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Customer Helpdesk
The Office Jester… every office needs one to make the customer helpdesk interesting for the customer Every business, these days, seems to be introducing the customer helpdesk into its operational systems. The reason is as much based in common sense as statistics. Common sense says that when customers have a problem or query, they want to sort it out immediately and with the help of another person. They’re not interested in reading the solutions and then trying to figure out which one fits ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Email at Work
The Office Jester… every office needs one act out email at work in real life Oh…emails! How we have come to loathe them. There was a time when they were celebrated for simplifying work. Now, other tools have simplified work further which has resulted in emails becoming relatively obsolete. In reality, the role of emails has changed. They were tools for organising and project management when new. They’re now relegated to just being communication tools. Numerous studies have found that one of ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Entitled Corporate Employees
The Office Jester… every office needs one to catch entitled corporate employees out Corporate employees are the whipping boys of the service class today. They are under the cosh wherever they are. The reason for this is their general personality. The foremost character trait of corporate employees that irritates people the most is their sense of entitlement. For one reason or another, entitled corporate employees are very common and they are very commonly the butt of the jokes too. There’s ... Keep Reading
The Office Jester: Office Slackers
The Office Jester… every office needs one to beat office slackers into professionalism I know what you all are thinking. This subject is a treasure trove of jokes, insults, puns, implications, similes, and metaphors. Whatever you want, this subject can deliver. Because of that, you lot probably think that I’m going to go on and on and on in this post. However, fear not, brave reader. I have considered your concerns and decided to not ramble, rant, rave, jabber, and spout. The subject, of ... Keep Reading