These Workers Were Told To Decorate Their Desks, So They Built A Castle

by N/A, 8 years ago | 2 min read

Raise the drawbridge. Man the turrets. This is war.

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Work can be pretty stressful sometimes...

Unless you're a professional puppy-petter, in which case, screw you.

If not, then you probably know the stresses of a demanding workplace just as well as anyone else.

The creative team at Viking, a UK-based subsidiary of Office Depot, knows it all too well. So when they're boss complained their desks "weren't creative enough," they decided to take matters into their own hands...

AND BUILT A DAMN CASTLE AROUND THEM.

The team elaborated on the company's blog that everyone was instructed to decorate their desks creatively to beat post-Christmas, post-New Years “January blues.” So decorate they did...and then some.

“Being the creative team, we decided we needed to do something special,” they wrote.

They built the majestic structure entirely out of scrap cardboard, which ended up taking them pretty much all night.

On a week night, too. That's dedication.

All in all, it took them roughly 9 hours to complete, and they used 500 pieces of cardboard and 80 hot glue gun sticks. Again...dedication.

Inside their fortress, they were safe from the dangerous, uncreative outside world.

Intended as a surprise, the Viking creative team didn't inform anyone of their medieval shenanigans. So when their coworkers came in the next morning, they were sure to capture their reactions.

One guy apparently found it funny, while everyone else was just silently judging them.

And what would a castle be without its artillery?

They came, they saw, they cardboarded.

And their enemies...well, their enemies were felled.

And the few who weren't were consumed with fear and fled hurriedly into isolation.

Eventually though, the bossman had to pull a bossman and rain on their reign, telling them to "restore normality by Monday."

Or they'll "be having words." Oooooooooooo!!! Is that supposed to scare them bossman??

Actually, it probably did. A cardboard castle isn't worth losing your job over.

But alas! Behold the video, my fellow commoners: