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...)

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[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Things I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. All are from places I've worked; some may be from places we've both worked; some of them might have been me.

- The guy who wore headphones all the time, bounced around, sand aloud with his music, and played occasional air guitar.

- The guy who was constantly drumming on every surface nearby, in his cube, at meetings, etc.

- The girl who always ended your sentences for you, sometimes muttered under her breath.

- The VP who kept trying to nudge the company in the direction of the porn industry.

- The CEO who openly discussed his, probably ceased, meth habit, and gave people tips on passing drug tests.

- The new-employee hazing which included getting up in front of everyone and telling an embarassing funny anecdote about yourself. (I actually skipped out on that one completely.)

- The employees who ordered a monogrammed wooden combination bottle opener and dildo shipped to the VP at the office.

- The employee who emailed the whole company at 3am apologizing for his poor understanding of appropriate office behavior. And who later on wandered around with a guitar serenading management. And who was a week or so late coming back to work because he didn't have enough money to fly back from Spain.

- The CEO who was pre-op transgendered and presented professionally as female - except when government customers were visiting, when he expected everyone to know that he was presenting male.

[jducoeur]

Hmm -- all good ideas, some of which are nice nuances to add to characters already suggested and some of which are new and different. I suspect I'll use at least half of these: thanks!