To think this is disgustingly self indulgent?

[CherryPeakerr]

We have a Friday quiz at work. Entire building of 300 people. One person sends out one question and it will be personal ... like what's my dogs name and then multiple choice answers.

The person who sent it out today wanted everyone to not answer just 1 question about themselves but 7.

When they sent the answer out they then included lots of photos of themselves, their family, their car etc

It was breath takingly cringeworthy

to describe something that is a bit weird and/or cringe inducing as 'disgustingly self indulgent' is a little OTT in my opinion.

whats 'disgusting' about it? Its just something i would laugh at and roll my eyes a bit, and then get on my with life

Someone at my work once emailed approx 300 colleagues to say bye when he left the organisation along with about four or five paragraphs detailing what his future plans were and some black and white photos of him posing in an arty way.

Are they trying to find out your passwords?! How oddly intrusive. ..

In my company, an announcement was emailed from HR about a position move. A very attractive head shot included of the woman involved. A guy mailed a really toe curlingly compliment to her. Reply all. About 3000 of us witnessed his pathetic sounding come on

It sounds very dull. I'm guessing it's compulsory?

how strange to add photos! He could just add everyone on Facebook

Every year where I work, without fail, someone based in Germany sends an email in German to the whole company inviting them for birthday drinks (somewhere in Germany, obviously). You'd think someone would have alerted them by now to their distribution list fail.

The prize is two hours off? Hmm. What field do you work in?

How many questions do I think a good quiz should contain?

a) 1
b) more than 1

The winner gets two hours off work?

Where do you actually work?

If it's multiple-choice then just send different emails with all the choice of answers on and you will win with one of them. Surely, it's not that easy. Is one email picked out at random as the winner?

Do you really want to hurt me?

Is this your manager?

everyone who gets it right gets 2 hours off?!

Haha BadLad!!
OP your quiz sounds rad. But one question does not a quiz make I'm afraid.
We have cheese and wine in the office but whatever floats your boat

I'd be worried about the security implications about sharing so much personal information (photos of family and car) with hundreds of random people over email.

A photo of the car that is sat outside the office because you drove to work?

What security implication?

@AFriendCalledFour

that really tickled me.

God, I miss the corporate world sometimes.

Nonno hmmm, what do I get if I answer your fiendish question?

NonnoMum that's so easy, it's obviously Jeremy Clarkson.

I still don't understand the rules of the quiz OP. is it the first person to reply with the correct answer? And does everyone set a question each week? In which case presumably there are an awful lot of people getting 2 hours free leave each week.

You really need to explain how this works.

I ran a quiz last week in our village to raise funds for a local event. I set 9 rounds of 10 questions each. Clearly I should gave taken this approach instead

I'm finding myself overly interested in the whole thing.

I guess they just pick one winner out of a hat. But it has to be a personal question.

So, what's the name of the guy I lost my virginity to?

a) Steve
b) Eric
c) Mark
d) Alistair

Everyone, who wants to take part sends back an email with their answer. The people with the correct answer gets their name put in a hat, one gets pulled out, I email everyone with the name of the winner and the correct answer.

It was all a lot of fun until one person decided to change the rules of the game by not only asking 7 questions about themselves but also included self-indulgent photos with the answer. What an ass, huh?

You see, I'm so over-invested!

No, strictly one answer per person. If you send multiple answers then you'll be disqualified

If everyone gets the correct answer does everyone get the time off?

I simply LOVE this idea. Imagine the fun you could have.

The virginity question is my favourite.
Or
Who do i think is most likely to sleep with the boss?
a) Sarah
b) Kate
c) Emma
d) me

I think the OP sounds like she has a pole up her bum. Some people can't find any joy in the absurd.

@Shadow666 Mark?

Wouldn't you just tell some friends at work the correct answer and then have an afternoon off down the pub with them?