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The Biggest Loser: Work Edition

vhcoleman09vhcoleman09
in June 2009 Weddings

I just got the following in a company-wide email. I believe the Employee Activity Committee has been watching too much TV.

*Join The Biggest Loser Competition.  Pick a friend or 3 and make a team to participate in the competition.  Teams of 2, 3, or 4 will participate in an 8-week weight loss competition.  For a $5 per person buy-in anyone can participate. Weigh-in stations will be located in King 1 and 702 on Jan. 4 and 5, and the team that looses the biggest average % weight will win ALL the money from the entry fee.  So, even if just 20 people enter, the winning team will get $100!  The competition begins January 4 and runs through March 1, 2010.

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  • clarisa_bclarisa_b
    Our work had this last year, but it was individual weight loss not team progress. The sad thing is almost everyone participated.
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  • mamie329mamie329
    Yeah, I've heard of a lot of companies doing this lately. Also you should email the creator of the email to fill him/her in on the difference between loose and lose.
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  • stjoespirit04stjoespirit04
    We're doing this at my work, too, in teams of 4. They're weighing everyone at the beginning, then people weigh themselves once a week and give their weight loss to their team captain. Then they all get weighed again at the end. The team with the most weight loss "wins", and the person within that group who loses the most gets a $25.00 gift card.
    I'm friends with everybody in this office. We're all best friends - I love everybody here. But sometimes your best friends start coming into work late, and start having dentist appointments that aren't dentist appointments. And that's when it is nice to let them know that you can beat them up.
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  • mamie329mamie329
    No, no, no. I don't wanna hear moaning. This is a good day. You guys accomplished something big. You lost a ton of weight, literally. A lot of weight. And I don't care what any stupid scale says, you guys are all gigantic losers.
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  • LarkNowLarkNow

    imagemamie329:
    you should email the creator of the email to fill him/her in on the difference between loose and lose.

    My thought exactly.  Drives me crazy.

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  • vhcoleman09vhcoleman09
    imageLarkNow:

    imagemamie329:
    you should email the creator of the email to fill him/her in on the difference between loose and lose.

    My thought exactly.  Drives me crazy.

    I'll get right on this. Right after I sign my pg a** up.

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  • Leigha12Leigha12
    Haha, you could totally screw up a team's numbers! :)
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  • chrissyvcmchrissyvcm

    imageLeigha12:
    Haha, you could totally screw up a team's numbers! :)

    Well, that would be depend on when the contest ends!

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  • vhcoleman09vhcoleman09
    It ends March 1, so my team would pretty much hate me.
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  • mamie329mamie329

    imageLeigha12:
    Haha, you could totally screw up a team's numbers! :)

    I'm conjuring up this scenario of the weigh in. Your team's numbers go up. Everyone shifts their gaze to you with eyebrows raised and laser beams of hate. "DAMN YOU, VHCOLEMAN!" 

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  • stjoespirit04stjoespirit04

    imagemamie329:
    No, no, no. I don't wanna hear moaning. This is a good day. You guys accomplished something big. You lost a ton of weight, literally. A lot of weight. And I don't care what any stupid scale says, you guys are all gigantic losers.

    I love everything you choose to be, Mamie.

    I'm friends with everybody in this office. We're all best friends - I love everybody here. But sometimes your best friends start coming into work late, and start having dentist appointments that aren't dentist appointments. And that's when it is nice to let them know that you can beat them up.
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  • mamie329mamie329
    imagestjoespirit04:

    imagemamie329:
    No, no, no. I don't wanna hear moaning. This is a good day. You guys accomplished something big. You lost a ton of weight, literally. A lot of weight. And I don't care what any stupid scale says, you guys are all gigantic losers.

    I love everything you choose to be, Mamie.

    :) I was hoping you'd come back, Walt.  

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