The Monkey Games Are Done

Monday, September 12, 2011

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRUESOME FOOTAGE OF OUR CEO’S PERFORATED FINGER.

The sun has set on Woot’s first ever Monkey Games, a highly organized, month-long, company-wide effort to depress productivity! Some may question the wisdom of squandering so many workday hours on such frivolity — but from our perspective, we’d have to say the Games were a huge success.
(Seriously. We have to say that.)
These games had it all, though! The intoxicating stimulant of victory! The total downer of defeat! And a genuine, season-ending injury for one competitor: Our head honcho, Matt Rutledge, who got his middle finger stabbed open on one of the dunk tank’s sharp edges. It’s a bummer, too, because that’s the finger he uses to communicate with most. We stopped using that tank immediately, both because of its dangerously pokey protrusions and because the risk of shark attacks went way up with blood in the water.
Despite the boss’s digital damage, the Monkey Games were pretty fun. Maybe we’ll do it again next year!
Then again, maybe we’ll all be dead in the Mayan apocalypse by then. You just never know.
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