Never Have I Ever Questions for Work

Never have I ever questions about meetings and video calls

Cameras, mute buttons and meetings that ran a little long.

1. 1.Never have I ever had a pet join a video call uninvited.
2. 2.Never have I ever joined a video call with a funny filter still on.
3. 3.Never have I ever said “you're on mute” more than five times in one meeting.
4. 4.Never have I ever gotten stuck in a “no, you go ahead” standoff on a call.
5. 5.Never have I ever waved goodbye on a call and then couldn't find the leave button.
6. 6.Never have I ever worn a nice shirt and pajama pants to the same video call.
7. 7.Never have I ever tidied only the part of the room my camera can see.
8. 8.Never have I ever had a virtual background make half my head disappear.
9. 9.Never have I ever been in a meeting that could have been an email.
10. 10.Never have I ever held a meeting standing up.
11. 11.Never have I ever been in a meeting so long that we ordered lunch.
12. 12.Never have I ever taken meeting notes I couldn't read afterward.
13. 13.Never have I ever dressed up for a themed team meeting.
14. 14.Never have I ever had someone walk behind me in the middle of a video call.
15. 15.Never have I ever frozen on camera with a really funny face.
16. 16.Never have I ever eaten a snack on camera while sure my video was off.
17. 17.Never have I ever sat alone in a video call waiting for anyone else to show up.
18. 18.Never have I ever waved at the end of an in-person meeting out of video call habit.
19. 19.Never have I ever clicked into the wrong video call by accident.
20. 20.Never have I ever used the raise-hand button in a meeting with three people.

Never have I ever questions about email and work chat

The inbox, the chat window and the long pause before hitting send.

1. 21.Never have I ever typed “per my last email” and then deleted it.
2. 22.Never have I ever marked an email as unread so I'd remember to answer it.
3. 23.Never have I ever spent longer writing an email than the task itself took.
4. 24.Never have I ever changed “Thanks!” to “Thanks.” and back again before hitting send.
5. 25.Never have I ever sent an email that said “see attached” with nothing attached.
6. 26.Never have I ever used my first emoji in a work chat and then worried about it all afternoon.
7. 27.Never have I ever answered a work message with just a thumbs-up.
8. 28.Never have I ever written a funny out-of-office reply.
9. 29.Never have I ever saved a message as a draft and slept on it before sending.
10. 30.Never have I ever reread an important email five times before sending it.
11. 31.Never have I ever emailed myself a reminder.
12. 32.Never have I ever reached inbox zero, even for a minute.
13. 33.Never have I ever replied to a work message with a GIF.
14. 34.Never have I ever gotten a “got a minute?” message and assumed the worst.
15. 35.Never have I ever been on an email thread with more than 50 replies.
16. 36.Never have I ever written “sorry for the late reply” on a message that wasn't late at all.
17. 37.Never have I ever typed “haha” with a completely straight face.
18. 38.Never have I ever started a work chat channel just for pet photos.
19. 39.Never have I ever written a long reply and replaced it with “sounds good”.
20. 40.Never have I ever pretended to know what a work acronym meant.

Never have I ever questions about office life

Desks, mugs, printers and the line for the microwave.

1. 41.Never have I ever labeled my lunch in the office fridge.
2. 42.Never have I ever waited in line for the office microwave.
3. 43.Never have I ever brought something homemade to share with the team.
4. 44.Never have I ever kept a desk plant alive for more than a year.
5. 45.Never have I ever decorated my desk for a holiday.
6. 46.Never have I ever sung happy birthday to a coworker in the break room.
7. 47.Never have I ever taken the stairs to skip an awkward elevator ride.
8. 48.Never have I ever talked about the weather with three different people before 10 in the morning.
9. 49.Never have I ever said “good morning” to someone well after lunch.
10. 50.Never have I ever made a fresh pot of coffee for the whole office.
11. 51.Never have I ever adjusted my office chair and never figured out how to put it back.
12. 52.Never have I ever had my desk chair slowly sink during a meeting.
13. 53.Never have I ever accidentally walked off with someone else's pen.
14. 54.Never have I ever had someone else use my favorite mug.
15. 55.Never have I ever worked in an office with a resident dog.
16. 56.Never have I ever worked at a standing desk.
17. 57.Never have I ever had the printer jam right when I needed it most.
18. 58.Never have I ever become the go-to person for finding scissors, tape or a charger.
19. 59.Never have I ever kept a snack drawer at my desk.
20. 60.Never have I ever worked with someone who has the exact same name as me.

Never have I ever questions about commutes and work trips

Trains, bikes, parked cars and the ten-step walk from bed to desk.

1. 61.Never have I ever missed my stop because I was lost in a podcast.
2. 62.Never have I ever biked to work.
3. 63.Never have I ever nodded to the same stranger on my commute every day.
4. 64.Never have I ever had a favorite seat on the bus or train.
5. 65.Never have I ever started driving to work on a day off.
6. 66.Never have I ever gotten to work so early the doors were still locked.
7. 67.Never have I ever had a commute longer than an hour each way.
8. 68.Never have I ever turned around halfway to work to grab something I forgot.
9. 69.Never have I ever joined a work call from a parked car.
10. 70.Never have I ever been on a work trip where I only saw the airport and the hotel.
11. 71.Never have I ever worked from a coffee shop for a whole day.
12. 72.Never have I ever worked with a teammate in a time zone where it was already tomorrow.
13. 73.Never have I ever worked from somewhere really unusual.
14. 74.Never have I ever had a commute of about ten steps from bed to desk.
15. 75.Never have I ever taken a pretend commute walk around the block before work.
16. 76.Never have I ever carpooled with a coworker.
17. 77.Never have I ever ridden in an elevator with the head of the company.
18. 78.Never have I ever met a teammate in person after months of only seeing them on video.
19. 79.Never have I ever spilled coffee on my shirt on the way to a meeting.
20. 80.Never have I ever practiced a presentation out loud on my way to work.

Never have I ever icebreaker questions to get to know coworkers

Fun facts, hobbies and hidden talents, so you learn something new about the people you work with.

1. 81.Never have I ever had a job most people have never heard of.
2. 82.Never have I ever worked a summer job outdoors.
3. 83.Never have I ever run a 5K.
4. 84.Never have I ever had my name in a newspaper.
5. 85.Never have I ever won a trophy for something unusual.
6. 86.Never have I ever performed on stage in front of more than 100 people.
7. 87.Never have I ever learned to juggle.
8. 88.Never have I ever learned a few words in a coworker's first language.
9. 89.Never have I ever cooked a dish from another country from scratch.
10. 90.Never have I ever volunteered at an animal shelter.
11. 91.Never have I ever had a hobby nobody at work knows about.
12. 92.Never have I ever taught a class on something I love.
13. 93.Never have I ever sung in a choir or played in a band.
14. 94.Never have I ever finished a 1,000-piece puzzle.
15. 95.Never have I ever played on a team that won a championship.
16. 96.Never have I ever collected something for more than ten years.
17. 97.Never have I ever had a pen pal.
18. 98.Never have I ever lived in more than three different cities.
19. 99.Never have I ever gone a full workweek without coffee.
20. 100.Never have I ever been in a studio audience.

How to run it in a team meeting

You need about ten minutes and one person to share their screen. Everyone holds up five fingers and puts one down for each card they've done. For the complete rules and a few hundred more cards, see the full Never Have I Ever game.

1. 1Share your screen and start the list at the top of this page.
2. 2Ask everyone to hold one hand up to the camera. Cameras off? People can type a number in the chat instead.
3. 3Read eight to ten cards. After each one, invite one or two people to tell the story in a sentence.
4. 4Stop while it is still fun. A short round at the start of a meeting works better than a long one at the end.

Keeping it comfortable for everyone

These questions stay away from health, money, family plans and anything that could get someone in trouble. A few habits keep the game itself just as easy.

• Make stories optional. Putting a finger down is enough, and the story is a bonus.
• Managers play for real, and go first. It shows the game is safe.
• Don't turn a card into a review. If someone has never reached inbox zero, that's a laugh, not a topic for later.
• Mix in-office and remote cards, so nobody sits out a whole round.

When to use it

For more ideas, browse our icebreaker games and games for video calls.

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