You know how it is. You get to that time of the year when you expect someone to step up and when nobody does, you know it's up to you. Is it because nobody is paying attention or because they just don't care? Maybe it's both.
Last month, for example, was the Oscars and for the past five years, the video guys hosted an Oscar pool and the office sprung for a couple pair of movie tickets for prizes to make it more interesting. This year: nothing (even though I sent an email to remind them.) Too much trouble? It's really no trouble at all. More like terminal ennui.
So here we are with March Madness looming and nobody is going to step up with the office pool. So either I find some poor schmuck to run it or I have to run it myself (heaven forbid!) I can't ask my regular go-to guy because he's mere days away from being a father for the second time and he doesn't have the necessary attention span right now.
One of the big problems with my office is that it's not overly sports-minded and not just because it's overwhelmingly female. In fact, my boss (female) always participates in the pool and it is because of her that I feel compelled to make it happen. It's sort of defaulted to my responsibility even though, technically, office pools are frowned on by higher administration.
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Sometimes, just writing down your problem in a semi-creative way will give you the insight necessary to solve your problem; meaning that I had an idea of who to pin this on. Let's hope he takes the bait. Thank you, Lord.
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