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Ahoy there, my fellow corporate comrades and people sitting behind the glass doors! Today, I am going to spill the beans on the ultimate secret to surviving the nine-to-five grind – how to be the office clown without getting sent to the HR’s cabin! So, grab your coffee mugs and prepare to laugh your way through the workday, because fun is the only way to Nirvana to cut through the drab monotony of the world.

For the somber and serious people out there with nervous disorders in the facial muscles and who rarely laugh, let me tell you, not for all, work is a holiday. For many, it is a drab and humourless affair that we are often tied a noose around our necks and asked to do with tight deadlines and quality departments looming large on us. Despite the monotonous morphology of work, we have to do it for a living. So, here, a little office humor and laughter can make your day by softening the muscles of frowned faces. So, grab your coffee mugs and get prepared to laugh!

Water cooler gossips – Unwiring the weary souls

Let’s talk about the water cooler first where gossips originate, top secrets are divulged, and rumors are spread. Albeit it is the right place to unleash your comedic genius. When someone murmurs saying, again, I have a meeting with the boss later in the day. It is the right time to spill the pun and say, “Good luck – hope PowerPoint works in your favor!”

Breaking the Boardroom Boredom

Another significant place to break the boredom by cracking jokes is when you address the elephant in the boardroom meetings! Everyone pretends to be interested while secretly daydreaming about escaping to a tropical island. This is the perfect venue to inject some humor into these soul-sucking sessions by strategically using metaphors while saving your back too. When your boss is droning on quarterly reports, a remark like “Listening to this presentation is like trying to teach a cat to tap dance – entertaining, yet futile” can make people loosen their jaws a bit.

Unlocking the Cubicle Conundrum

Now, let’s dive into the delicate art of cubicle banter. Remember, timing is everything. When your co-worker is stressing over a deadline, stroll by their desk and whisper, “They say stress is just confusion leaving the brain. So, you’re just getting smarter by the minute!” It’s like offering a mental spa day without the hefty price tag.

Ice breakers in the break room

Now, let’s talk about the sacred territory of the break room. If your office is anything like mine, it’s a battleground for coveted microwave minutes. So, the next time you find yourself in a microwave standoff, unleash your inner stand-up comedian. Say, “You know you’re an adult when you get excited about a clean microwave. It’s like winning the lottery but with leftovers!”

Teaming up for laughter

Lastly, team-building activities – are a necessary evil of corporate life. Whether it’s a trust fall or a ropes course, approach it with the enthusiasm of a cat being forced into a bath. When the team-building facilitator suggests a trust fall, respond with, “I trust everyone here… to watch me plummet to the ground like a deflated balloon. Let’s do this!” It’s a sure-fire way to break the ice and probably a few bones.

In conclusion, my fellow office jesters, remember that office humor is the secret weapon in the battle against workplace monotony. So, go forth and sprinkle your workplace with humor and laughter like glitter at a unicorn party. And if anyone questions your methods, just throw on a clown wig and tell them you’re conducting a morale-boosting experiment. After all, who can resist the charm of a corporate jester? Happy joking, my friends! Have and make them have fun!

Sincerely Yours,

Norman & Ozi

Here I come again with your weekly dose of laughter and fun to break the monotony of a 9 to 5 grind. A bit of laughter can make your day! It does for a lot of us, so it will hopefully do for you too. If you do not have the Acquired Amusement Deficiency Syndrome (AADS), you would love to read my posts. A job on someone else’s premises often feels like you are imprisoned behind invisible bars. It seems as if you have taken an oath to surrender your freedom with the squeaking sound of your access card and you are now a bound slave of your KPIs until you swipe your card to end the day.

Here a little laughter can make you feel relieved and people who have slowly relinquished this habit for pressure have been a victim of AADS. You will find such people in plenty in the corporate lobbies. They look like a happy hybrid of robots and bulldogs without the lace. Apart from AADS, they might also have diabetes, hypertension, heart blockage, and a few others. It is late in life that they realize they have not used the forty-three muscles of their faces at all which can inflate their liabilities and hospitalization bills. This is when they try to protrude their esophagus out and try practicing the most natural response, laughter, by getting into laughing clubs. Reading my articles and browsing my comic strips can save you from such hazards that your environment superimposes on you.

In an attempt to keep the mood light and make life feel easy, jokes and humor are the best of your companions. You would agree with me that the corporate world is full of idiosyncrasies and eccentric practices. More often than not, big corporations are more or less like a nation where they find it hard to keep a balance between the good and beautiful with the evil and ugly. This leads to queer policies and programs.

A productive interplay of human behavior gives rise to such bizarre conditions that it’s sometimes difficult to even breathe. This art of breathing and making others breathe where there are throat-choking and suffocating forces in play is precisely called organizational behavior. They employ scholars of organizational behaviour in their Human Resource Development departments who eventually also get transformed into veritable robots in just a few years. I prefer not to advocate sophisticated methods of provoking amusement and laughter. Just read my articles and go through my office comics. Somewhere you may find yourself too in one of those situations and characters who are my colleagues and accomplices. And who can say? Maybe you can laugh at yourself and can turn out to be the Duke of Desk Jokes or the Sultan of Satire!

See you next week! Till then, laugh and make others feel happier. You can of course browse through our corporate comics and amuse yourself. Share our office cartoons and comic arts with others to spread happiness.

Chucklingly Yours,

Norman & Ozi