What was your first ever job?
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Light
- What was your first ever job?
- Tea, coffee, or something stranger?
- What's the most useless thing you know a lot about?
- What's a skill you have that never comes up at work?
- What's something you're looking forward to this month?
- What's on your desk right now that probably shouldn't be?
- Which fictional workplace would you most like to work at?
- What's a tool or shortcut that saves you time every single day?
- What's your most-used emoji at work, and what does it really mean?
- How would teenage you describe your job?
- Would you rather have no meetings or no email?
- Which fictional character would be the worst coworker?
- What's the weirdest thing you've ever Googled for work?
- How would you describe your role using only three emojis?
- What's the last thing you had to mute yourself to laugh at?
- Would you rather have a shorter workweek or a higher salary?
- If our team had a completely honest motto, what would it be?
- What do your family and friends think you do all day at work?
- What's the worst autocorrect fail you've sent in a work chat?
- What's the best "you're on mute" moment you've ever witnessed?
- What's a scientific discovery you hope to see in your lifetime?
- What would your walk-up song be every time you entered a meeting?
- Would you rather have a four-day week or finish every day at 3pm?
- What small victory made you feel unreasonably powerful this week?
- If our office turned into a reality show, what would it be called?
- If your workplace or school had an honest slogan, what would it be?
- If you had to email the CEO one emoji right now, which would it be?
- What rule would this team immediately break if we made it official?
- If you could eliminate one type of meeting forever, what would it be?
- What's the best out-of-office message you've ever set, or wish you could?
- If our team won an award for something silly, what would the award be for?
- Would you rather never get a raise again or never get a vacation day again?
- If you could automate one tiny annoying task forever, which would you pick?
- What household task have you quietly done mid-meeting and gotten away with?
- If you were the villain in a workplace sitcom, what would your evil plan be?
- If you could have any superpower, but only during meetings, what would it be?
- What's the most chaotic thing that's happened on a video call you've been on?
- Would you rather have unlimited vacation days or a guaranteed raise every year?
- If our team started a band, what would we be called and what would we sound like?
- Would you rather work from a beach with bad wifi, or an office with perfect wifi?
- If you renamed your job title to something ridiculous but accurate, what would it be?
- Would you rather every meeting start 10 minutes late or end 10 minutes early, always?
- If you had to survive a zombie apocalypse with only what's on your desk, what's your plan?
- Would you rather always meet your deadlines with average work or miss deadlines with great work?
- Would you rather skip any meeting with no consequences, or end any meeting early whenever you want?
- Would you rather share your screen by accident once a year, or leave your mic on for one full meeting?
- Would you rather never get another "quick question" message, or never get another "can we hop on a call"?
- Would you rather sing karaoke with the head of our department or be on a call with the CEO and your parents?
- Tabs or spaces?
- Camera on or camera off?
- Spreadsheets or slide decks?
- One long meeting or three short ones?
- What's your biggest video-call pet peeve?
- Be honest: how often do you work from bed?
- Deadline pressure or open-ended timelines?
- What's your most awkward video call moment?
- What are you wearing on your feet right now?
- What's a perk from a past job you still miss?
- If our team were a snack, what snack would we be?
- What's your policy on pets crashing a video call?
- Which fictional team is the best team of all time?
- If our team had a mascot, what would it be and why?
- How would you describe your job to a five-year-old?
- What would a documentary about your inbox be called?
- What's your best "I can't believe I work here" moment?
- If our project had a warning label, what would it say?
- What's the one tab that's always open in your browser?
Closer
- When do you do your best thinking?
- What's a small win from this week?
- What would you like to learn from someone here?
- What's one thing that would make your week easier?
- What's an early-career mistake that taught you a lot?
- What's the most useful feedback you've ever been given?
- What's a piece of work you're proud of that few people saw?
- What's a work habit you picked up from someone on this team?
- What's something about how you work that people might not guess?
- What's the best meeting you've ever been in, and what made it good?
- Would you take a 50% pay cut to work only three days a week?
- What did you do at work that you're proud of, but nobody noticed?
- Would you rather know exactly what your coworkers earn or keep salaries private?
- Would you rather work with a team of clones of yourself, or a team of total opposites?
- Would you rather have a terrible boss but a great job or a great boss but a terrible job?
- Would you rather have amazing coworkers and average pay, or average coworkers and amazing pay?
- Picture a day you come home thinking, "I have the best job in the world." What happened at work?
- Would you rather have a great job with coworkers you dislike, or a boring job with coworkers you love?
- Does praise or criticism motivate you more?
- What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work?
Deep
- What are you learning that isn't in any plan?
- What kind of help do you find hard to ask for?
- What would you like this team to be known for?
- What's a question you've held back from asking here?
- Who helped your career the most, and do they know it?
- What does a good day at work actually feel like for you?
- What's one thing you'd change about how we work together?
- What would you do differently if you started this role again?
- When did you last feel really stuck, and what got you moving?
- What do you want to be doing in three years that you're not doing now?
- Would you rather have your best idea credited to someone else once, or never have a great idea again?