To not want to do a 'fun quiz' for my colleagues?

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At work every week we have these team meetings, and each week we all take it in turns to create a quiz or some kind of icebreaker activity to do at the start of the meeting. I absolutely hate it and think it's pointless. So far, I've managed to get out of it as initially it was volunteers. However, my manager has just asked me to do this week's quiz. I'm in my notice period and my last day is next week, I thought I'd gotten out of having to do it.

I have avoidant personality disorder and this kind of thing is my worst nightmare. I know I'm over-reacting

Ooh love quizzes.
You could do a ten question quicky where starting letter of each answer is part of an anagram (I'd go for CORONATION) but obv switch the order so they have to work it out. The team are told there is a ten letter word anagram up for grabs from the start: they can write it down and guess at any point for a bonus but only get one guess per team
You don't say what it is until the end.

What is the surname of this year's Oscar winning Best Supporting Actress?
Which lazy womble was named after a river in South America?
Which plant, often used in crumble, is known by the Chinese as the "great yellow"?
What is the term for words which suggest the sound they describe e.g. bang, whizz, crash? (TIEBREAKER if two teams have same score - spell it out loud!)
What is the first name of the antagonist kit man in Ted Lasso?

If this interests you, I'll do ATION after a

I'd do 10 questions about me and enjoy them all having a rubbish time.

But there have been a lot of these sort of threads recently and they all say the same thing. "I'm leaving so I don't think it's a good idea", a straight "no", or suck it up and just do something with as little engagement as you can muster. That advice is unlikely to change.

I'd do a name that thing quiz, using knitting stitches, fishing hooks, screws, something really niche so they all score zero, and I'd be so excited about how easy each picture/ example is.

Every week?!

We only do this once a year for our annual Zoom Christmas party. It's excruciating

@tourdefranceYes, fonts. As in Arial, Times New Roman etc. I queried in disbelief & was told "it's a fun thing for the team". Fonts? Fun? The oddest workplace ever. 70% of them sat around openly doing absolutely bugger all & getting 6 figure salaries for it.

When "forced" into doing similar I picked Russian literature as the topic. The highest score was 3 out of 20. I had great fun, my colleagues perhaps less so. The three questions asking them to identify the book from it's title in Russian went down particularly well. I'd either pick an obscure topic you like, use chat gpt or say "no".

What a kill-joy, I'd hate having someone like you as part of my team (have before and they brong the whole energy down). Everyone else does it, just suck it up and do it or maybe get another job where you don't have to interact with people.

Google "DOPE" personality test and do this (needs some preparation), it's a lot of fun (and I think you'll find it personally useful).

Brong?? Wtf.

Bring. Typo.

Thats fine then. Genuinely thought you were using that instead of brought 😄

@Jemandthehologramsunite the OP is getting another job - well at least leaving this one. She is leaving in a week. Does she really need to organise a pointless quiz? No. She doesn't.

Isn't this the third or fourth thread about this on a weekly basis.?

What about a drawing comp they have draw something you pick a winner. Less interaction from you.

I don't think the issue is not being able to think of questions it's more the standing-at-the-front-doing-the-quiz bit.

Obviously if you're leaving in a week you can say no and there's not much they can do about it (although this also involves confrontation that might be uncomfortable for you).

Could you try and look at this from a more positive angle and see it as a challenge for yourself?

I don't want to patronise you but, maybe this could be an opportunity for you to confront this fear. There will be times in life when you are asked to do things like this that you don't want to do, but really, it can feel good to take a big gulp and just do it.

You might feel empowered and good about yourself if you do it.

This could be a perfect opportunity because you are leaving and will never see these people again, so if it goes badly, who cares? You'll be away soon and can forget all about it!

So your options are to say no (fine) or to try and rise to it as a personal challenge, for yourself - not for them or for anyone else - but prove to yourself that you can do it.

There's lots of suggestions on here for what you could do, or just google for a trivia quiz etc.

I think you might feel good about yourself if you have a go at this and overcome your fear.

OP has avoidant personality disorder.

If she struggles with doing a simple quiz, I think this level of confrontation might be a bit of a stretch.

I think many of us would hate to have someone on our team who actually wanted to force people into doing pointless, cringeworthy “fun” quizzes! I bet OP can interact with people just fine on normal terms when she’s not being made to do pointless, cringeworthy exercises 🙄

OP, just a firm “no thanks, it’s my last week and I don’t want to do it” should do the trick. I’d hate this too’

Run a scattergories - you can get them online easily and it pretty much runs itself - just need to press go on the Internet page.

Do a quiz all about avoidant personality disorder.

Or ask people to estimate how many hours have been spent on these quizzes and pointless stuff since you started xx years ago.

Say you would like to use the time to help do your handover note/finish something up, and ask to be excused.

oh yes do that!

Just Google Jay's pub quiz.. Job done.

Obviously, I don't know much about your disorder, but sometimes you must have to do stuff you don't want to do? So just look for an easy option.

or is there a music quiz?
beat the intro?
pop quizzers

Honestly, the easy answer is just to get ten questions off the internet and read them out. I realise you’re leaving but you haven’t left yet and you’re still being paid, so maybe just do this not unreasonable thing. Far easier than saying no if you find conflict hard.