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25 September 2010

#268 Find new uses for rooms

Your job should be more fun, your workplace more decorated and your longing for the weekend a bit less desperate now at the end of "Seven things you can do at your workplace".

Just because it is called a “sidewalk" doesn’t mean that you can only use it for walking. You can do a thousand other things but because some bastard decided to call it “sidewalk” it limits your thinking on the spot. It's up to you to find the secret entrances, the hidden carrots in the background and the keys to unlock new levels in the game.

Every time after I'm out running, I stretch in the courtyard in front of our house. I usually start with the back leg and then lift my leg up and put my foot on the table into the yard where the big angry cat usually sits. It's not called a stretching table. At my old job I used to go into the telephone room and read comic books. At my work before that I used to have lunch in the cool stairwell. Invent your own functions for things and find bonus dimensions in existing rooms.

- Meditate on the toilet when the air outside feels too intrusive.
- Do push-ups behind the Coke machine at the entrance.
- Take a break and read a paperback on the roof when the sun is blazing.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
Some may think that it’s not suitable to sit in the bathroom and do things that are not related to rectal or urinary functions.
Pros: 
Your world expands.
Taggar: workplace, printer distal, new purpose, new dimensions, meeting rooms, comic books, canteen, 365 things you can do
20 September 2010

#263 Replace negative notes

Tomorrow it’s back to work for those readers with a job. On a Sunday, that can feel hard to bare, but to make this autumn’s work less of a bore we at 365 decided to help you: Here is "Seven things you can do at your workplace".

I don’t know how I ended up hosting Filmkrönikan for SVT. I could tell you how I confronted the big Russian in charge of culture and entertainment on the stairs in the studio and gave him a piece of my mind. It went fast from there. Then, I got yelled at because I hadn’t seen a single film by Ingmar Bergman. Then I saw all of Bergman's films. But I still didn’t fit in. But that’s not essential for this story. It's not about me. It is all about signs. Note. Angry messages with a lot of exclamation points.

"Wash up after yourself!!!!!"

"Do not forget to flush!!!!"

"Unwashed coffee cups are a breeding ground for cholera!"

"Your mother does not work here!!!!!!"

They exist in every workplace. No one knows who puts them up. But one could assume that people sneak in at night like angry ninjas and tape up the notes with their hands shaking with furious loathing. Then everyone walks around like nervous hens every time they forget to rinse a coffee cup.

To this day I feel like writing new notes. Sending a nicer message. Encouraging a nicer tone for the work place.

Bonus - A note can contain a clothesline and clothespins.

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
The angry note ninjas may get even angrier and flood your work place with new notes like "Do not put your own notes !!!!!!!"
Pros: 
It can lighten the mood in the workplace. Notes at the counter, in toilets and other areas affect people in a workplace more than you think.
Taggar: your mother does not work here, workplace, Sveriges Television, patches, Ingmar Bergman, chronicle movie, 365 things you can do