Seeking office horror stories
Mar. 25th, 2009 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurI 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.)
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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...)
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.)
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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...)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2009-03-28 12:50 pm (UTC)The person with significant verbal claims of $CONDITION who does not exhibit any obvious symptoms.
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Date: 2009-03-28 03:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-28 04:24 pm (UTC)Another: the day someone foolishly had food for a lunch meeting set up in the cafeteria, where uneaten food from meetings was habitually left for anyone to graze. Result: no lunch for the meeting.
Another: a secretary for a very small office is hired, and then declares that she will not answer the main phone line. I never figured out why they didn't fire her on the spot, but it was England, and maybe labor laws are different...
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Date: 2009-03-28 07:54 pm (UTC)Horrible, funny, and terribly plausible. It's a wonder that doesn't happen more often, given how deep the "anything out in the kitchen is fair game" meme permeates many companies...