Has the World Cup affected your work day? It’s been creeping into mine all week.
I rent my little office for my local practice here in St. Louis from a global conglomerate. Although the people who share my space with me are pretty much small, local businesses, the company we rent from has offices all over the world. One of their cardinal rules is that all the offices must be the same. Therefore, my little office in St. Louis has World Cup soccer on the TV in the lounge all day long. It’s addicting.
For some reason, the only station we get that shows World Cup soccer is in Spanish. It doesn’t matter though, as it was pretty easy to figure out that “Gooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!” means “Goal!” in Spanish. Other than that, it doesn’t much matter what else they say. It’s just kind of fun.
At first, I thought I was the only one who cared. Okay, I really was the only one who cared in my office. But, today, with the US playing, there were more converts. Fortunately, this is not my busy time of the year so I can afford to relax and watch a little television once in awhile.
Am I being productive? Well, let’s see, this is supposed to be a tax blog. Oops. I guess that I now have evidence that World Cup Soccer messes up worker productivity. I can live with that, at least for awhile.
If you’d like to stall your productivity too, click on the link below. It shows the Australian soccer team getting some training assistance from African animals. As for me, I really do need to get back to work.