Seeking office horror stories

[jducoeur]

I seem to have accidentally wound up with the high concept for my game for Intercon next year. (As so often, it's all Christian's fault: he is always a font of game ideas.)

To that end, I am looking for any and all ideas for Drip -- the water-cooler horror game. It's going to be a vicious satire of All Things Office. The ideas are already flowing pretty quickly, but I welcome more: if you have character ideas, situations or just war stories about Office Life, send them along and I might work them in. Feel free to brainstorm wildly: weird and unlikely isn't necessarily a bar here. (Those who remember Panel will know how willing I am to get downright strange in my scenarios.)

(No, tpau, I'm not bidding it yet. Among other things, I haven't figured out the game's scope yet. It might be a one-hour 10-person Z game, a two-hour 20-person Sunday-or-Friday game, or a full four-hour 25-to-30-person slot. Once I understand how big the game is, I can think about bidding it...)

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

There needs to be a guy who takes most of the donuts or cookies or whetever else is out.

No, that's not me.

[jducoeur]

Yes, you're right -- there definitely does need to be. (Donuts. Need a meeting with donuts.) Thanks!

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of another entertaining bit. Several of my co-workers are very fond of food. And there are often bits of free food left over from lunch meetings, which end up being left in the lunch room for the hordes. Sometimes there's an email announcement, sometimes it just appears and vanishes by chance.

One day I discovered that there are four or five guys who actually have a phone tree set up. One day there were several pizzas left over from a big lunch meeting. One of the guys wanders in, sees them, grabs 3 slices for himself, then picks up the lunchroom phone. The conversation consists of the phrase "Pizza. Lunch Room." . I wisely grabbed myself a couple of slices and settled back in a corner to watch the sharks gather.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of when I worked for Media Services at my grad school and we all had cell phones we had to carry to each delivery.

"The third floor conference center is empty, but the teleconference room has CAKE!!!"

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Or the people that take 1/4 of a donut. Or leave 1/4 of a donut behind.

1/2 I can SORT OF understand, but 1/4? Get over it!