Cube Swap!

Implement Cube Swap, your own cubicle survival reality show! Cuburb residents apply to switch cubes with other workers for a temporary, long-term or indefinite period of time.

 

Cube Swap provides a change of scenery and cubicle neighbors, thus allowing its contestants a change of pace and renewed energy as they continue their search for the cheese they may never find.

 

Once the cube swap takes place, contestants become disoriented, thus making it even harder for them to find their way out of the cuburbs and to that cheese the boss has hidden so well!

 

Earnote for management: If you're not ready to build or add on any "real" offices, consider Cube Swap. The more confused, lost and disoriented the "mice," the less likely any are to find their way out of the cube and into an office!

Worklyhood Squares!

Develop a work version of Hollywood Squares, coming up with questions you will later ask contestants. Some questions should be work or industry-related since you could then call this a "work meeting" on company time. Schedule your "work meeting," possibly teleconferencing everyone in for the meeting to avoid being too loud and/or to avoid the rest of the office discovering you're actually having fun at work. *gasp*

1. Select a different section of cubes in your office each week that will participate in your new game show. There should be 9 cubes in all...in a square or cubed shape.

2. Select two coworkers from outside that selection of cubes to be the contestants.

3. Pose questions to the contestants, allowing the contestants to select a cube/person to help or suggest an answer.

4. Person in cube attempting to "assist" the contestant may or may not answer the questions correctly. They may be serious in their answers or may use humor and levity.

5. Contestant chooses whether or not to agree with the suggestion given by person in cube. If the contestant is right, their "X" or "O" symbol is put on top of the cube. (Game show "host" would pre-determine which contestant is "X" and which is "O" in advance, as well as which contestant starts first.) If the contestant is wrong, the other person's symbol is put on top of the cube.

Note: In the case that doing so would be an overall "win" for the other contestant, then that person has to actually "win" the cube by having a question posed to him/her and answering it correctly in the usual manner.

6. Use the company's tape, colored paper or tagboard to put X's or O's on top of each cube accordingly as to which contestant "won" the cube.

7. The contestant who "wins" the first 3 cubes in a row - vertically, diagonally or horizontally wins the game itself. If no one wins that way, the first with 5 cubes to display an "X" or "O" is dubbed the winner.

8. Award prizes at host's and/or management's discretion.

Play MusiCubicles!

On a day when the boss is gone (preferably a Friday), arrange a meeting within your cuburbs. Invite a staff member from maintenance, requesting him/her to bring tools.

 

Remove one cubicle from your cuburb, asking maintenance and/or or other cuburbians to dismantle the cube.

 

Play "musical chairs," only with cubes instead of chairs. There should be enough cubes for all but one person.

 

Play elevator/work music, having the cuburbians wander around the cubes until the music stops.

 

When the music stops, each cuburbian attempts to claim a cube. Whomever is left without a cube when the music stops is eliminated from the competition.

 

Another cube is eliminated, and game-play continues. This process repeats until there is only one cube left standing and only one final "winner" of that cube.

 

Earnote: The real challenge is reconstructing the cubes before the boss is back in the office. And if you rearrange them, will the boss even notice?

Hide and Sneak!

Leave your boss a voicemail from someone else's phone extension, alerting your boss that you have an urgent matter you need to discuss; but that you'll be working with a bunch of others in the office all afternoon, so you won't be at your desk and aren't able to go to your boss's office either. Tell him/her that it's imperative you discuss the matter in the next few hours.

 

Then, when you know your boss has heard the message and is looking for you, sneak around the office, hiding in random cubes. Ask the cube inhabitants not to let your boss know your whereabouts or that you were even in their cubes, until you've already snuck off to hide in another.

 

Attempt to sneak around until those "few hours" have passed, and then let your boss miraculously find you diligently working in your own cube as if you were there the whole time.

 

When questioned as to the urgent matter, stare silently but angrily at your boss for thirty seconds, as if he or she grew a second --- (or in some cases) third or fourth --- head. Then, claim that you saw him/her steal your "lucky pen." Demand that he/she return that "lucky pen" immediately and seek counseling for that kleptomania problem before HR has to take action!