Football tables in offices--c/d?

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Ubiquituous for any company that even vaguely wants to say, "we know that time spent thinking and enjoying yourself is half of your job. We want you to have FUN". I hate this:

http://www.bustersbilliards.com/images/photos/photo-foosball-garlando-g500.jpg

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

a week after i lost my old job the company bought a pool table and a Playstation to boost staff morale. wankers. therefore DUD!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo!

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I like table football but that doesn't mean that managers who get them in for their staff aren't utter wankers - either pretentious or clueless, or at best herd-followers.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

We have a dart board in our office. I think this is classic, but then I would, as I am da bwoss.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

they should have pinball machines, like '80s ad agencies in the movies

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The last place I worked in that had a football table WAS an ad agency.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my office motto: "WE HATE FUN"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

work here has foosball, bubble hockey, giant plasma televisions, and a duck pond. fun is hated here som much, that we've gone past the extreme hating of fun and back to normal a few times.\
also, some people liver here i guess. as in , they never go home.

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell me you don't work in advertising or the media, kephm.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

we are not allowed to use the one in our office. it is for customers only

― barry upscale (gareth), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

we are not allowed to use the one in our office. it is for customers only

That sounds like the law of our building, which somewhere states that the employees are not to use the vending machines, because the customers are upset when what they want is not available in the machine. So the customers get four and five month old danishes in plastic wrappers and flat sodas and so forth. Charming.

Of course, they also decreed that the two handicapped parking spots were reserved for customers as well, and that the handicapped employees park in the 'employee lot' more than a 1/4 mile from the building's entrance. The one-legged former fighter pilot in the office next to ours mentioned the American's with Disabilities Act and suddenly he was allowed to park close to the building, but still not in the handicapped spots. Gracious of them, eh?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Making an ex fighter pilot who had (maybe) lost his leg fighting for his country walk an extra quarter mile each way is not a brilliant PR move.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the companies I work for has a rather cheap football table and as such it makes an appalling noise. They tried getting in a cheap air hockey table but that was even worse. The staff are only allowed this sort of amusement towards the end of business on a Friday.

― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont work in advertising or the media adaml

― kephm, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

my last full time job had one of these. it was seriously the best thing ever. all the bosses were english or irish, so football (soccer) was more of a priority to them than it was to the rest of the yanks that worked there. if you couldn't play foosball well, you could be fired. and they didn't have the cheap american made tables, they had full on imported from france tables. i miss it sooooo much.

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The most fun thing we are given here is a kettle.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 2 October 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a plant for my desk on my 2 year anniversary of working here. That was pretty fun. :(

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 October 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

we have three dimensional chess on every desk

when you go up to speak to someone you have to make the next move

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 2 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

they should make you play human chess - even better. in fact, there really should be an ILX chess set

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be an ILX BOOTH in every office. Think of the wonders that would do for productivity.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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