Work? What?

I am now "Spirit Team Coordinator" for my team at work. My team that consists 70% of old guys, 10% young guy, and 20% me and Audrey who works part time. On a philosophical level, there couldn't be a more perfect team for me. Its like they dissected my pysche and picked only people who represented real life Bridget. The same proportions easily apply to me, especially when drunk. However, this is a crappy combination for work life Bridget, who is perpetually smiling and obsessed with getting the fuck off the phones by any means necessary, even if that means a year of decorating cubicles with paper ribbons. Because real life Bridget would like to be left alone to do her job, and loathes the idea of baking cupcakes.

Okay, thats not entirely true. I really like baking cupcakes. Which is WHY I ended up in this job.

So here's my game plan for motivating my teammates, and therefore, by proxy, myself.

I'm splitting us up into two teams, Sales reps versus Service reps. We will compete mercilessly. I'm starting us off with a contest where every time you make a "cross-sell" or a "cancel/save" (yeah......I'm not explaining that) you go and steal the balloon with the prize in it from whoever won it last. And whoever has the balloon at the end time of the contest wins it. Since most of these guys are in their second careers and should never be made to have to pin a flower on anything, ever, I think they'll like it. You get to win and you get to make sure someone else doesn't win. Very "Survivor". Plus inherently unfair, so that always makes for a good time at work.

They would like it better if I could make the prize a bottle of liquor. But HR would be mad. I just found out yesterday we can't do dice games because they consider it gambling. Which is illegal? Since when? (looks around confused)