Office Wars and Nerf Guns
Jul 9, 2008
in Gadgets and Gizmos
Current my company has one rule, bring your Nerf gun with you to meetings or suffer the consequences....Other than a few stragglers (Interns mostly... pfft!) my team is fully armed each day at work. We do not pull punches with our Nerfiness, either. There is no "Oooh I slightly pinged you in the fleshy part of the upper arm"... What I end up hearing is "AHHhh! That was my eye!!!", and nothing at all beats the sharp, slappy sound that the suction cup Nerf darts make when someone gets one to the cheek from 2 feet away.
But I digress... I had seen this particular Nerf gun online, and made it my mission to procure one for myself. I will say, not the best idea ever. The huge dart is really cool, although easily takes out a flat screen monitor (Sorry Michelle!) but the gun part? Nah. Falls flat. So difficult to use that by the time I got the thing to shoot I was already fully covered in Nerf velcro darts. Sad, really.
So currently when I interview people (Engineers, Marketing, What-have-you) I tell them to bring in on their first day the
Nerf Maverick. It's a revolver type weapon with space for 6 bullets. Small, but excellent to keep on your lap during marketing meetings (Since you KNOW the engineers will be Ninja'ing themselves into the conference room to mercilessly shoot you til you cry!)
By the way.. I have all the Nerf weapons now except a very select few, so feel free to ask me which is a good choice. I'll be happy to expound on what a great team building tool it is!
Comments (4)
I love that your office has Nerf wars. Maybe if I get a Nerf gun and start shooting people the people at my work will catch on!
HAHA...do you ever have guerrilla nerf wars?? I'd like to work there, sounds funnnn.
are your guys hiring for any HR positions?
THANKS!
...the excitement of a maverick heavy first day!
Heh. We're also big fans of the Maverick. ;)
Good to know about the N-Strike... it was looking pretty tempting!