Monday: 9.23am Arriving at work on time, Sato chained his bike to the bike rack to prevent it from being stolen and went inside to get a coffee from the vending machine. He could do with a quick pep-up before he started.
You chain your bike to the bike rack hard – even if your morale might not be, you know your bike will be there at the end of the day [6]. Just time for a quick coffee from the machine before the boss walks in, and surprisingly it comes out tasting pretty good. You even get to finish it all sitting down before he walks in and tells you what to get on with.
“Satoshi, I need you to go and clean up the dead pigeon outside the lab windows in Research Wing Blue,” starts the boss, “that’s the seventh dead goddamn pigeon in six weeks and I want this one cleaned up before the smell gets any more complaints. Get to it, off you go.”
Morale Boost! Safe bike!
Success! Decent enough coffee!
Morale Drop! Menial labour!
Task Assigned! Clean up dead pigeon!
Failure Rating: 9.
Morale: 2.
Get some caffeine, then put up the best "I'm working hard" facade I can.
You get some coffee from the machine Sato used ten minutes ago and only just manage to gulp down the watery crap before the boss stomps in [3]. You put on your best “hard work” face [6] – you look so damn motivated the boss immediately turns to you.
“Thrakor, good to see you looking so motivated, I’ve got a pretty good job for you this morning, you won’t even need to reset any passwords. A member of staff up in room Red Four Two 26 needs help installing a keyboard and we don’t have a level 2 support desker available to help, so I need you to get up there quick – they’ve got work to do.”
Ah man – Red Four Two’s up on the sixteenth floor and you walked past the lift this morning with an out of order sign on it. Damn. At least he didn’t comment on your lateness.
Morale Drop! The long walk!
Success! Impressive workface!
Task Assigned! Help install keyboard!
Failure Rating: 10.
Morale: 0.
Daniel makes sure that his workplace is clean, and he tries to look smart.
Sitting down at your desk, you tidy your workplace for when the boss walks in [4], but the effect is pretty much spoilt by your scruffy appearance [2].
"Dammit Daniel," the boss growls, "This isn't a goddamn zoo. Go straight to the bathroom and straighten up your hair and tie, you look like you just got of bed. While you're in the bathroom the far end stall needs unblocking, it's disgusting and I can't get maintenance down there till lunchtime. Come on, get a move on please, go and ask the cleaner for a spare bucket or something."
Morale Drop! I'm not a toilet cleaner!
Fail! Shoulda checked your tie!
Task Assigned! Unblock toilet!
Failure Rating: 10.
Morale: 2.
Toby walks in, heading for his cubical. When he arrives, he will search his desk for objects that could be of use for him. Hopefully, it wouldn't be too obvious that he isn't working..
You walk and head for your cubicle [5]. You look for something that might be good to use in some kind of practical joke, but only find a roll of sellotape and a stapler [3]. You're wondering what you could possibly do with them and staring off into space when the boss walks in - you don't look busy at
all [1].
"Hey! Toby! You look like you're in need of some kind of work to do! Not going to get you paper-flipping just yet, although someone's gonna have to do it later - I need you to head down to room Blue Three 16, they need someone just for a quick research question and you look like you're free. Come on son, get going. There's a good lad."
Morale Boost! Not just a paper flipper!
Fail! Boss thinks you're lazy!
Task Assigned! Quick bit of research!
Failure Rating: 11
Morale: 3
Action: Kathryn decides to take the stairs-less likely to be spotted on the elevator, and a little jog should be invigorating!
Assuming she gets to work without out incident, she settles into a comfortably boring routine of typing 35,567 WPM-all that back work, jeez!
Getting to work about fifteen minutes late, you take the stairs up, avoiding a lengthy wait for the broken
elevator dammit I fell for that one lift and taking an invigorating jog [4]. You head to your desk and are about to settle down to some hard typing when the boss comes over and tells you to head right back down those eight flights of stairs [1].
"Hey, Kathryn, sweetypants - did you see the lift was broken when you came in? Well, you were the last one in so you drew the short straw. I need someone to fix it and I need it fixed now. I can't wait for two hours for maintenance to come over, we got Professor Leyton Crack coming over to visit this morning and I want everything to be perfect.
Everything, you got me? Now get going, I wanna see that lift working by 11 sharp."
He gives you a look like he hates your ass, no, wait, like he hates everything about you
except your ass. Man, this is already looking like one loooong day at work.
Morale Boost! Invigorating exercise!
Morale Drop! What the hell? The
elevator lift?!?
Fail! Boss noticed you were late! Hard!
Task Assigned! Fix the
elevator lift!
Failure Rating: 14.
Morale: -3.
I put up large stacks of meaningless papers on my desk, to make it look like I have been busy.
You get to your desk still thinking about that girl on the train and put up some massive stacks of paper all over your workstation [6]. You look so busy when the boss comes in that he just glances over approvingly and doesn't give you anything else to do.
Morale Boost! Nothing to do!
Success! Boss knows you work HARD!
Task Assigned! Er, wait, you're pretty damn busy with those stacks of paper...
Failure Rating: 8.
Morale: 4.
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