I recently read a great blog in which one of the posts was about entertaining yourself at boring meetings and one of the steps was imagining your boss, lecturer, whatever, dancing naked doing the Makarena with poms poms. The blog does warn that this could be traumatic.
So I thought I would share one of my lesser traumatic, boring meeting busters with you.
Its called ‘Wank Words Bingo’.
As we know – all corporations have a set of words and jargon that the corporate bosses use continually when imparting uplifting or otherwise messages.
So what you do is jot down any annoying corporate speak on a piece of paper. It can be single words or whole sentences, like – We need to touch base. The rules are very fluid.
Then you mark them off as each one is said during the meeting, Try to contain yourself and not call out Bingo during the meeting, it’s not considered to be appropriate for some reason.
Try to be innovative in your choices otherwise the game becomes as boring as the meeting.
Although most government departments and corporations tend to change their coporate speak in line with the latest trends so you should be able to play this for some time.
Happy to hear of any other games that meeting participants play. I need all the help I can get as I am one of those poor sods who is continually sent to meetings so my manager can get out of them.