Fucking Fun Committee

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social committee

[explorer2001]

Charity fund raiser with teams? We just did penny wars in our office to raise money for charity and everyone got competitive with the teams.

Charity volunteer day

Bowling

Sports game - like take everyone to the baseball game

For the holidays office/cube/door decorating

[Mushe]

I try to focus on charity stuff. The escape room might be fun for some, but I know someone here posted about them doing this at work, and it's an anxiety issue.

I've done diaper drives, the back to school supplies for foster kids, and things like that. You can have a party or potluck at the end, before donating.

[fumbalina]

I used to babysit for a man that did a lot of activities for his company. These included a trip to the circus, a screening of Star Wars Episode 1 (it's been a few years), trips to the zoo, tours of museums and a lot of other tourist type activities.

[elfinia7]

In a previous job every quarter we did something "fun" during work hours outside of the office. We did a catamaran boat tour with lunch and drinks, we went to a place that did mini golf, had batting cages, a driving range and an ice cream shop, we did a tour of fenway and ate at boston beerworks after. At my current job we've gone bowling several times.

[huskymom]

We do trivia tournaments, bowling nights, halloween parade/costume context, holiday potlucks, baseball games, we do an in-house happy hour every so often with "guest" bartender (usually a member of sr management). We just did a summer picnic with olympic style events.

[Deleted]

I'm on the fun committee. We call it the "fun committee". Lol.

Most of what we do is the stuff my department has been doing for ages - a BBQ in the summer, chili cookoff, appetizer day around the holidays, etc. I don't think we really need a committee for it, lol.

[moolarkey]

Personally, I hate this kind of crap and it puts me in a bad mood when we're doing it. Our people want A) money b)food c) time off - if you aren't offering those things, forget it.

[cayl]

I was part of the Volunteer Action Committee at my last job (I got volunteered by a VP - it sucked). We did a lot with the local community, and it was actually fun. We had a group go to the Food Bank every month to help with whatever they needed done, we worked with local schools to "adopt" families for Christmas (usually a department would adopt a family, so as a company we did around 12 each year), donated backpacks for the back to school drive, collected for the food pantry, etc. They had a WinterFest party every January, and a day at the local amusement park every summer (the employee was free, each person they brought was $5, and it was free admission plus a full BBQ). Every employee was allowed to do 8 hours of volunteering (though only activities set up through our committee) during working hours and still be paid.

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I'm sorry.

[pumpkin]

We occasionally do team potlucks. Otherwise we've done food drives for the food bank and competed to see which team could bring in the most food (I think they measured by pound) and adopted families for the holidays.

[tripleshot]

Aug 8, 2016 13:20:50 GMT -5 moolarkey said:

Personally, I hate this kind of crap and it puts me in a bad mood when we're doing it. Our people want A) money b)food c) time off - if you aren't offering those things, forget it.

This.  And if I'm forced to do it, it better be during the workday and not evenings or weekends. 

[eport]

We did an in house one. Each department designed a mini golf hole (work provided balls and putters). Throughout the day at your convenience you went through the course. Winners got prizes (besides 1-3 best score, department award for most fun/creative hole voted on by everyone). It made everyone actually go through the whole building/each department and meet/know all the departments at work. Most people went through in small groups so there was lots of discussion, laughter at bad shots, some amusement that they had never been to this part of the building, etc.

Some departments got really into it. Another just stacked all their file boxes to create a path. Someone brought in a windmill from their backyard garden. The CEO had one in his office so everyone talked to him at some point during the day. The hole on tile was the hardest as the ball moved fast.

[hermione]

Ours is called "Fun Committee." I am not on it but I like what they do:

Get approval for Jeans Days
Plan food related things
Plan things that result in winning prizes (i.e. fill out an Oscars ballot, whoever gets the most correct wins a small gift certificate).
Organize the end-of-year gift exchange (Secret Santa without being Christmas exclusive).

All things happen during normal work hours and do not require any extra time and very little effort from participants.

[moolarkey]

Aug 8, 2016 14:16:09 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Aug 8, 2016 13:20:50 GMT -5 moolarkey said:

Personally, I hate this kind of crap and it puts me in a bad mood when we're doing it. Our people want A) money b)food c) time off - if you aren't offering those things, forget it.

This.  And if I'm forced to do it, it better be during the workday and not evenings or weekends. 

Exactly, my time away from work is MY time. I'm also not schlepping food in for a potluck. I am not taking dishes to the restroom to wash and I'm not carting dirty dishes home so that means I'm not bringing anything. Also - they call them pot lucks but it is pot-sign up - NOPE. If I DO bring something, it will be potluck which means it is whatever I can throw together that morning.  I am completely over this kind of crap, just let me do the job you pay me for - and pay me for it, then I'll go home and come back and do it all over again tomorrow and we're fine.  Take my personal time, take time from my day that puts me behind in the work you are paying me for and then we've got a problem.

[heliocentric]

I'm not on the committee at my office, but they do simple things like a chili cook off, theme days (like have hot dogs on baseball opening day and encourage people to wear team jerseys, similar for the super bowl), and basket raffles. One year they did a week long "olympics" with activities at lunch like corn hole, horse shoes, etc. People signed up for teams and competed throughout the week. I think a fake torch was even moved from team to team each day. All of these are optional and during the work day so there is no obligation to participate.

[insominac]

Aug 8, 2016 12:18:55 GMT -5 capscapscaps said:

Everybody gets to go home at noon.

Funnest day ever.

I'm doing that silent shaking with laughter thing right now...

[pinkalicious]

Sunshine Committee/club - that's what all the schools I've worked in have called it.

[Deleted]

I used to do something similar and then someone pissed me off and I stopped. We hosted breakfast with different departments, arrange the taco guy, white elephant xmas gift exchange, birthday cards for all associates, lotteries for gift cards (1 dollar per chance. excess money goes to the fun fund), donations or items for care packages to our employees working overseas in deployment zones, drives for animal shelters, and cookies for single soldiers and a cookie exchange at the same time.

[keh2oblue]

We call it Project Play and the people who run it are called 'FUNgineers'

[puppyluv]

We did one of those painting events with wine during the work day, like 2-4 pm. That wasnt too bad. All our other events have been over lunch with lunch provided.

[lizrd7579]

I'm on our fun committee and we don't have an exciting name. We're in charge of quarterly awards, semi annual potlucks and two offsites per year. The awards, we do themes with trivia, snacks, and the awards. Our potlucks are generally themed, like chili cook off, Mexican, or tailgate. Our offsites are during the work day. We have to plan lunch and an activity that lasts two hours at least. We've done bowling, cooking, a scavenger hunt, "Olympic" games at a park, arcade games, and baseball games. Our team is incredibly competitive, so as long as there's a competition, they like it.

[AAM2012]

We have something similar and we did a beach day where teams decorated their area and got to wear (work appropriate) beach stuff. We have more theme days coming up.

Olympic inspired games, scavenger hunts, movie day where we provide popcorn and a movie plays throughout the day in the break room.

[Mushe]

Oh my, you poor thing! My coworkers (government) are all about the themed potlucks.

[pumpkin]

Aug 8, 2016 22:48:08 GMT -5 Mushe said:

Oh my, you poor thing! My coworkers (government) are all about the themed potlucks.

Yes, my government office is the same way. And as to the comment above, I'm pretty aware of who brings what and make decisions about what I'll eat based on that.

[Balki.Bartokomous]

As long as you do stuff that doesn't require me to bring in food, spend money, stay late or put me behind in my work bc I'm forced to participate in social events, I'm all for it.

I generally like when we have team lunches where the company pays. I also like when they set aside a conference room to project the world cup/Olympics/other popular sporting event and let you watch (and work at the same time if your need to). My department also has the cafe cater a nice snack every Tuesday afternoon: savory, fruit, dessert and drink. It's awesome.

[wesleycrusher4ever]

The social committee at my job set up food truck Thursdays. It's been really popular. A local food truck sets up shop in the parking lot and we can text our orders.

I never eat the food at work potllucks, so I wouldn't suggest those lol

[fernweh]

Aug 8, 2016 22:46:10 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

I forgot about this thread but thanks for all the suggestions.

Fwiw there's already another committee committed to fundraising/charity related stuff like donating to the flint water crisis or school supplies, etc.

moolarkey & tripleshot everything will be during work hours

And apparently potlucks are gross because you don't know how clean someone's house is or how fresh their food is


SOUNDS LIKE DOING THIS IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN

I mean, not to be a fun sucker but this is kind of true. Sorry co-worker, you smell like cat piss, therefore I have no interest in eating whatever you put it that crockpot

[LoveTrains]

Aug 8, 2016 11:57:05 GMT -5 Mushe said:

I try to focus on charity stuff. The escape room might be fun for some, but I know someone here posted about them doing this at work, and it's an anxiety issue.

I've done diaper drives, the back to school supplies for foster kids, and things like that. You can have a party or potluck at the end, before donating.

I don't want my work to drive my philanthropy. I prefer to research my own organizations and make my own contributions. 

[Mushe]

Aug 9, 2016 9:25:06 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Aug 8, 2016 11:57:05 GMT -5 Mushe said:

I try to focus on charity stuff. The escape room might be fun for some, but I know someone here posted about them doing this at work, and it's an anxiety issue.

I've done diaper drives, the back to school supplies for foster kids, and things like that. You can have a party or potluck at the end, before donating.

I don't want my work to drive my philanthropy. I prefer to research my own organizations and make my own contributions. 

You do you! I have never done something controversial, but things that are relevant to our government service program.