One of the fascinating issues about places of work is how they develop their very own subcultures, full with rituals and traditions. Listed below are some fascinating workplace traditions which have been shared right here prior to now:
•. For shut to fifteen years now, dressing up as one in all your coworkers has been a Halloween custom the place I work. It truly began when somebody got here dressed as me the primary yr. A yr later, I waited till I noticed what a coworker was carrying that day, acquired a co-conspirator to convey an identical outfit, and sat down subsequent to them. Folks have worn the CEO’s face printed out as a masks. No one’s ever gotten offended by it, it’s only a unusual custom now. I feel it has extra to do with the tradition and the intent than the rest.. our clones are in a spirit of enjoyable and respect.
•. I stay in a rural, farming neighborhood. Now we have an egg woman. As soon as each two weeks she stops by and delivers recent eggs to a rotation of people that order from her. She is so cute – she wears a patchwork, brightly coloured bag over her shoulders the place she retains all her eggs. Once I first began, I requested a coworker who she was they usually simply mentioned “That’s the egg woman.” No different rationalization required, I suppose!
•. I don’t know if that is unusual, however I labored for a corporation that had an workplace therapeutic massage therapist who got here by each Friday. The therapeutic massage lasted about 5 minutes targeted in your neck, shoulders and again. Now that I consider it, I suppose the unusual half was all of the moaning and groaning on Fridays! Should you had been unfamiliar with the workplace tradition and walked into the cubicle farm and HEARD the therapeutic massage however didn’t SEE the therapeutic massage therapist, there should have been so many questions!
•. A bizarre custom I’ve seen in a number of NYC regulation companies, pre-pandemic: A shoe shine man going across the workplace on a daily schedule. He sits on his little field within the corridor to shine footwear.
•. In Iran we had a tea man who was constantly busy bringing individuals very small glasses of tea, and sugar cubes to put in your tooth as you drank the tea. I didn’t develop that behavior, nevertheless it was a obligatory function in each workplace. This in 1972, thereabouts. It might be completely different now.
•. Now we have interns who graduate into everlasting staff after ending their PhDs. Now we have a wierd custom of creating individuals recite their thesis matter in iambic pentameter.
Let’s hear about uncommon workplace traditions you’ve seen or skilled. (Observe: we’re in search of enjoyable and fascinating right here, not miserable.)