Dino the Dinosaur

Work is work, so you have to make it fun. In my office we sit in an open plan arrangement. The desks are arranged in clusters of four. I have a lady sitting to the left of me, a man to the right of me and another man across from me. The man across from me is hardly ever at his desk. The man to the right of me is the newest addition to our cluster, but the oldest serving employee of our cluster.

We first met on a course about three years ago when we had to split into pairs for an exercise and we built up trust then. Now, we have a toy dinosaur that sits on our cluster of desks which was given to us when work was doing a particular promotion. When the other person is grumpy we make it face that person, so they know they are being a dinosaur. We aren't often grumpy so we also hide the dinosaur on the other persons desk so Dino turns up when you don't expect him to.

Yesterday he went missing.

We interrogated the lady that sits next to me, cos we had made Dino face her on Friday, but she claimed innocence. We searched our desks for Dino, to no avail. Eventually we searched the desk of the employee-who-is-never-at-his-desk, and Dino was there!!!!! YAY He had fallen over during the night.

What would work be like without a bit of innocent fun?!