When I was working, well, let’s just say, before I retired, we would have a staff meeting every Tuesday morning around 10 a.m.  All the section and branch chiefs would give a short “what’s going on in their department” briefing to the Director and of course everyone in the room heard what was happening.  If there were issues between departments we would iron them out.  We would also get a boost speech from “the man” which was meant to help us through the next week.

Well, I made up a Bingo board with key words in the squares and passed them around to some of my supervisor cronies.  It was all meant to be in fun and we did have some fun, at the expense of the director of course.

Here is how it went.  I put words on the squares like “teamwork”, “sharing”, “together”, “helping”, “synergy”, “safety”, “timing” etc., you get the drift.  Words that reflect what was happening in the work environment at the time.

As the “mans” speech was said, if any of the words on the boards were said and if those words formed into a bingo, straight line, diagonal or horizontal across your board, you stood up and yelled “BULLSH#%”!

Bullsh#T Bingo was the name.

Try it in your office at your next staff meeting!  But don’t come to me if you get fired!

Bears Butt

Oct. 2011