Please enjoy a little modis operandi musica.


"Are you working hard or hardly working" is a common phrase I hear from family and friends when I tell them how I spend my days at Yahoo! as a Community Manager. Even though my job is to grow, monitor, and engage online communities, I whole heartedly believe that I need to spread the love of delighting people through social gestures at every Yahoo! campus I visit.



Some of my favorite moments have included marching around the halls with a pack of friends pretending to be a marching band with loud *toots* *bangs* and *faux cymbal crashes* as we parade towards lunch. I've enjoyed long afternoons drinking wine while listening to Nobel Prize winners and slipping away under my desk as a 2 year old playmate attempts to win hide-and-seek.

*update*Ovary Twitching..

Bdmiller, a common co-conspirator has taught me the ways of corporate prankstership by showing me how to hide food in desk drawers, throw larger than life paper airplanes, rig desks with kinetic noise makers, and take the screws out of chairs.

(seen here exchanging the Purell Hand Sanitizer for Jello)

I frequent the "relaxation room" which is meant for breast-pumping mothers (that of which I am not) but I use for short afternoon naps. I make many hot water trips to fill up my cup of Earl Grey or Pu'erh tea while on my way to the snack cabinet where I trade muscle jokes with the VP of Community.

Example:
Natalia: Do you know where the nearest vet hospital is?
Mike: No ::concerned look on his face::
Natalia: ::holds up biceps:: Cuz these pythons are siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!!



When I see a co-worker or stranger in the hall I greet them with a short animated jig and a smile. I enjoy throwing pens, Latvian cookies, and hooker cards from Vegas at the team I work with, and from time to time I jump online and do a live webcam show (completely sfw) with props, voices, and guest appearances from friends. My Mom gave me a game called "Butthead" that I happily shared with the team. The point of the game is to see how many points you can score by throwing balls at various places on the player's head. This game greatly lowers our productivity! Thanks Mom!



I recently discovered the gym and sauna because I crave getting buff (I've even started taking pilates classes with those big, multi-colored balls).



I also just finished up doing a video shoot for the CEO of Yahoo! out on Embarcadero. I was really hoping I was going to get to do a choreographed dance with him or a dance fight like in You Got Served, but my "It's Oh So Quiet" fantasy will have to wait for another day.





P.S. I stuck it to the man..by submitting this while at work. Booyah!