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| Humor at Work |
ISSUE 557 - Oct. 22, 2014 |
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Plunge Into a More Caring Workplace |
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If you want your employees to, and pardon the expression,
give a crap about your workplace, then you need to build a culture that values
and recognizes the great work they do. And that's exactly how Alpine Tubular
Management and Supply, a Calgary-based company, has built a thriving business.
Here's just a few things they do to foster an inspiring culture:
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Knowing that culture drive success, they hire
first and foremost employees that will be a fit for their values,
especially employees who embrace a work hard/play hard mentality.
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They hold a monthly town hall meeting that
emphasizes fun and transparent communication. Their town halls have
featured toga party themes, games of hopscotch, and employees rapping and
singing tribute songs to express appreciation for other employees. They rotate the responsibility for the theme/food
and fun for their town hall meetings between four different teams, so
everyone gets a kick at the can and no one gets burned out.
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They go out of their way to "recognize the
recognizers" by giving out "Alpine Bucks" in the form of
gift cards. The winners of Alpine Bucks are employees whose names have
been submitted because they've successfully recognized someone for living
their values out loud.
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As part of every town hall meeting they honor
someone who "gives a crap" about their workplace with a Golden
Plunger trophy, a golden-painted upside plunger and the name of the
individual or team on a small plaque. The trophy changes hands each month,
so the positive, albeit quirky (which makes it even better in my books),
praise gets passed along.
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Finally, they are very big on everyone dressing
up at Halloween - and to help make it easy for everyone they have a tickle trunk at
the entrance of the office stockpiled with fun props and costume parts. 
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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Halloween is creeping slowly towards us, so here's another random name generator to try as a meeting icebreaker or to use when the day rolls around. It's Your Scary Monster Name Generator.
My scary name is Joe the Headless Hook Nosed Undertaker. Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
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Deep Thought of the Week
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"Live one day at a
time. After all, isn't that why they were put in consecutive order?" |
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It's a Wacky World |
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Some more head-scratching, wacky warning labels from the archives:
- On a bag of Fritos: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary! Details inside!
- On a food processor: Not to be used for the other use.
- On a hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping.
- On a pudding product: Pudding will be hot after heating.
- On a package of nuts: Instructions: 1. Open package. 2. Eat nuts. | |
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