The Office Bingo
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The work-at-home genie is out of the bottle, and we’re never going fully back to the office. So here’s a Conference Call Bingo game for you to weed out the new era bullshit.
Thanks to @inagfatt for this gem, and I’ll start by making a special rule.
If you hear the phrase shown bottom left, you win conference call bingo automatically.
“Hey guys sorry I have to hop off, you guys keep talking” should be everyone’s career credo.
I need to focus on what really matters, and this recurring meeting probably isn’t it.
That’s how Zoom rose above the conference call bingo game.
Zoom was born out of WebEx, which was founded in 1995 and acquired by Cisco for $3.2 billion in 2007.
Early WebEx engineer Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 with help from early investment and advice from WebEx founder Subrah Iyar. Here’s how it played out:
– Zoom went live January 2013.
– Had 1 million users by May 2013 and 10 million by June 2014.
– Zoom raised $161 million over 7 rounds
– Went public April 2019 at a $9.2 billion IPO valuation.
– Zoom’s valuation jumped to $35 billion when pandemic lockdowns began in March 2020
– Zoom is now worth $118 billion.
Not bad for 10 years’ work.
And no question Zoom saved us in this era.
Zoom is genius really. It took something we all hate, and polished it up.
That’s the definition of tech disruption.
So we can rip Zoom all we want. And I’ll rip away for 2 reasons: (1) I hate conference calls almost as much as email, and (2) call culture worsens as micromanagers perfect Zoom meddling.
But conference call bullshit bingo and other jokes aside, Zoom is genius for 3 reasons:
1. Prove Remote Work Really Works:
Zoom made video calls and realtime back-and-forth screen sharing truly great. Zoom validates remote work by letting us prove we can be engaged even if we’re not sitting next to our teams. One silver lining of forced quarantines is proving once and for all that remote work really works.
2. Build Your Kid’s Youtube Dream:
My son wanted to start a Youtube channel last year, but only do it from an iPad and with screencast and audio. Until iOS upgraded screen record functionality, Zoom was the solution. And it still is because it’s easy and brought me a ton of joy supporting my son.
3. Bail On 1 Call Per Month:
Zoom is a giant success story about reinventing an utter commodity. They did this by stepping away from existing structure and looking at it fresh. And most jobs are a commodity. Unless you have the courage to step away periodically for a fresh look at reinventing yourself and your role.
So make it a habit to say that lower-left bingo card phrase on a call at least once a month, then bounce.
Too many daily routines are bullshit anyway, so use this tactic to focus on what matters to win your long game.
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– Nights, Weekends & The 3 Phases Of Success
– The Bullshit Lie of ‘Thank God It’s Monday’
– 3 Ways To ‘Crush It’ Without Being An Asshole
Let’s face it, life in the office can be a little tedious and we’re all prone to wandering off with daydreams/internet shopping/candy crush. Enter Office Bingo, the perfect way to keep your colleagues alert and raise morale as they go about their daily tasks.
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Prizes
And of course you aren’t playing for no reason. The top three places in each game come with their own treasured rewards.
1st place – Unlimited teas from the lowest ranked player for the next week.
The Office Bingo Cards Printable
2nd place – A “get out of jail free” card for any tea round at any time.
3rd place – First refusal on any doughnuts brought in the office for the next week.
The Rules
As Monica Geller famously said in Friends, “you can’t have fun without rules” and the same goes for Office Bingo. The laws of the game must be followed at all times, and in the event of disqualification, the offending player must make a tea round for the entire office.
- Office Bingo must only be played Mon-Fri, 9-5.
- To win, you must complete a horizontal or vertical row of five.
- In the event of a draw, the remaining players must compete in a best-of-three game of Rock, Paper, Scissors (or your chosen equivalent).
- There is no room for interpretation unless the stated event happens exactly as it is written, you may not cross it off the list.
- You cannot force these events to happen, you may only watch, observe and hope that it does.
- Unsportsmanlike conduct will be met with a forfeit of the rest of the players’ choosing.
- The punishment for affecting the game is an instant disqualification.
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