There's a virtual cornucopia of drinking games that exist on half ass geocities pages out there. You can get shitty watching anything from Airwolf to Star Wars to Seinfeld to This Old House/Old Yankee Workshop (WTF!?)

Often I sit at work salivating for want of a cold beer, and Miller time never seems to come to me soon enough. Like the first time the chocolate met the peanut butter it hit me. I needed to combine the area of my life that I spend most of my time, with the activity I most enjoy doing and turn it into a drinking game. A "Corporate Stiff Drinking Game" was born.

Any good drinking game has to have some predictable, repeatable, recognizable events to score against. We all know that work is chock full of such repetitive delirium that if put into a drinking game format could put a serious hurt on even Keith Richards' liver. Enough Babble! On with the game!

For every "event" listed below do a shot or take a hearty swig of beer (unless specified to drink more)

Event:

· A company wide email is sent out inviting you to participate in some meaningless company meeting
· Drink twice if some one replies all to the company wide message
· Somebody stops by your cubicle and asks, "have you got a second…" and then begins assigning work to you without waiting for your response to the initial query
· Lunch n' learns, lunch meetings with crappy catering (pickleloaf great, thanks, really) , or other excuses to get you to work through your lunch break
· You attend a meeting that had nothing to do with you
· Drink twice if it was "important" or "mandatory" that you attended such meeting
· Drink if you are reminded to log your hours or fill out a time sheet (unless you are paid hourly)
· Drink twice if you have to log your time/hours in more than one system
· Your candy bar/snack gets hung up in the vending machine coil
· Drink twice if you put in more money and were then ripped off twice
· Somebody drank the last cup of coffee and left the pot empty
· Drink 3 times if they put decaf in the "regular" carafe (BASTARDS!)
· You participate in a conference call
· Drink twice if someone goofs up the meeting time with respect to time zones or conference room assignments
· Drink 3 times if you are asked to put in oodles of overtime to meet some arbitrary project deadline
· The email system goes down and then hours later when it comes back up there is a company wide email sent to notify people that the email system is down (presumably sent during the outage).
· If you bother to call the help desk about a desktop issue and they ask you to "reboot"
· Drink twice if you rebooted before you called and they asked you to reboot again anyways
· The internet goes down and you can't reach www.RandomDrivel.com or balance your check book or check baseball scores or play Marbles or… drink 3 times and repeat until the 'net is back up
· You leave your desk for a second and when you return your voicemail light is on
· You send and email out to someone asking a question and they reply to the world (including your boss) and make you look stupid OR turn an easy question into a major operation involving 4 departments, LEGAL, and scheduling weekly status meetings.
· The printer/copier/fax/etc jams
· Drink twice if it jams when you are in the middle of printing out something important (like directions to the new bar you are checking out after work or something)

HEY! Know of a repetitive and/or predictable work event that I missed or overlooked? MAIL ME (WorkingStiff@randomdrivel.com) and i'll add it to the list