iI can’t believe I’m doing this! I’m sending more traffic over to the idiot savants at I Can Has Cheezburger? And this isn’t the first time, recently I had my entire office on that cursedly cute site. My boss was about to tape a page from another coworker’s cat calendar to her office door. I couldn’t resist, I told her about Cheezburger and the other lolcats/lolpets. We then got the idea to each adopt a cat (or rabbit or guinea pig) and hang it on our office doors and guess what? Before I knew it, I was surrounded by lolcoworkers (did I just write that?). The place was filled with the energy of people finding searching for the right pet for their personality or suggesting fitting pets for others.
It was truly hilarious, I had to put my cynicism aside and I just sat there observing the outcome of the events I had set in motion. It really was priceless. To think a few weeks back I had been writing about how these cats could potentially ruin the English language and here I am turning my office on to them.
Now to make something like this work there has to be some strong leadership behind it. My boss was the first one to put a cat on her door, it was this one:
So if you happen to notice a slump in office energy, some low morale or decide that you and your coworkers need a team-building exercise, then you should send your folks to the #1 guilty pleasure site on the Net. Let the loling begin!
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