What do you do when you work for an internet marketing company, and the power goes out?
Yesterday afternoon a huge storm rolled through and knocked out our power. After shutting all of the computers down, so as not to run on the battery back-up, we were left sitting in the dark. Here’s a list of the things we did to try to stay productive (or at least entertained).
1. Brainstorming - We still had a little natural light to see our whiteboard. We actually came up with some great ideas with the lights out. Maybe the change in atmosphere helped get the creative juices flowing.
2. Thumb Wars - Eventually things got a little silly and we had a thumb wars championship showdown. (P.S. I won!)
3. Web Design Ghost Stories - Once we settled back down it was time to break out the flashlight and tell some good ol’fashioned horror stories. “Once upon a time, before we had standards, there was a browser called Netscape 4…”
4. Pre-internet Lecture - After reminiscing about how the internet used to be, James lectured us on the time before the internet existed. “You know I can remember a time before we even had internet…”
5. Meet New Friends - At this point, Phil, who works in the office across the hall came in and accused us of not working and then joined in our conversation about what computers used to be like. “Remember those word processors with the 2 line display?”
6. E-mail withdrawal - An hour had passed, and we were all starting to get a little shaky from e-mail withdrawal. We came to the realization that we all had internet connections at home and left to finish out the day working elsewhere.
It’s inevitable that the power will go out once in a while. What are some ways you spend downtime at work?
