The world is fully in Olympics mode, including our friends in Scranton, who are surely reliving their own Games of the First Dunder-Mifflin Olympiad.
In the episode from the second season, Jim and Pam entertain themselves (while Dwight and Michael are away buying Michael’s condo) by throwing objects into Dwight’s coffee mug. They discover that others around the office have their own games, and the Dunder-Mifflin Olympiad is born.
Not surprisingly, this episode was based on the writers’ personal experience. Surely, we’ve all participated in our own office games of some sort, although hopefully we haven’t played a lot of Oscar’s and Kevin’s “hateball” (or Kevin’s “who can put the most M&Ms in their mouth” game, for totally different reasons, of course). And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
While I can’t encourage you to halt work for a day so you can play Flonkerton, I do urge you to find some balance in the workplace and let your employees have a little fun now and then.
After all, if you can get your employees to build some camaraderie and look forward to coming to work, you’ve succeeded where many have failed — which just seems appropriate during the Olympics.
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