> Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting

> Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting > next to you. No, the company didn't "invent" a tradition. Here's two scenarios: 1) Your boss goes around and hands everyone a plastic action figure and says "okay let's all take pictures of him doing funny things!" Nobody's going to do it. It's going to feel forced, and it's going to have the opposite effect. 2) You come in one morning and find your boss taking a picture of an action figure bent over and peering into the guts of a server. Then you see a few coworkers doing it the next day. Pretty soon you're trying to top them. Management can demand that people have fun, but the only way it works is if you observe it in action.