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Something I Really Miss about Working in the Office — Whiteboard Art and Comedy
WFH was cool for a while, but the lack of co-worker hijinks is making work-life unbalanced — all seriousness and no hilarity!
There’s no getting around it, this pandemic has been a total bummer, dude. That’s an intentional understatement because so many have lost so much in 2020. I’m trying to add a bit of levity as I teeter on the edge of depression.
I long for the good ole days, when I worked in an office building and had a cubicle. One of the things I did back then to make my days interesting for myself — and my colleagues — was to leave messages on our whiteboards. For the unaware, whiteboards are just like blackboards, only instead of using chalk to write on it, you use an erasable pen or dry erase marker.
Of course, email and Slack are still avenues for sharing frivolity (memes, jokes, and wisecracks) with colleagues when working remotely, but being electronic and digital, they lack the immediacy and “you-had-to-be-there” joyful experience of witnessing how someone reacts to an amusing piece of artwork, graffiti, or wit on a whiteboard.
I think nothing can actually replicate being in the physical presence of someone when they laugh, smile, or…
