One of the better ways to make money is to start an office lotto pool. If your not familiar with how they work, here it goes: you collect people’s money, they tell you what lotto numbers to pick (usually in some grand lottery like the Powerball), you go out and pick up the tickets, and if anyone wins the whole office shares in the winnings. There are many benefits:
You will look like a leader. Starting something is a way to tell your higher-ups “Hey, I can lead people. See? See?” So, the office lotto pool is a great way to start.
Another great reason to do it is so that you can get to know your co-workers better. If you find out you don’t like them, then you can decide to stop doing the Powerball pool and hand the reins over to someone else.
However, the final reason is one that will make you not want to hand off the important task of heading up the pool. C’mere, no, closer…shh…don’t actually buy any tickets with the money! Tell everyone they lost and let that be that! I mean, seriously, you are really doing everyone a favor. Pretty much every lotto winner’s life goes down the tubes, anyway. Your better off investing the money for everyone in your own Playstation 3 so that you are more relaxed when you come to work. And isn’t it better for everyone if you are not uptight? The answer is yes. Heck yes.
The only trouble you might run into is if a ticket that someone picks actually wins. But hey, the chances of that are, like, nil. Besides, if someone does end up picking the winning Powerball ticket, you can just tell them you ‘accidentally wrote down the wrong number’. The office will forgive you by next week, I promise. What is a few million among friends? Another way to avoid disaster is to create a system where you yourself pick the numbers, and you don’t tell anyone what they are. If a nosey co-worker asks you why, you can just tell them it is ’so it is fair for everyone’, then quickly leave the room before they try to apply logic to the situation.
Depending on the size of your office (or Dungeons and Dragons group, or what have you), this could be a lucrative venture. On top of the prestige of running your own pool, besides the money, you can use the position to strengthen your ties within the office. Say you want to use the microwave when Bob is trying to defrost a freakin’ turkey; just tell him if the office wins, you’ll make sure he gets double if he’ll let you stick in your Easy Mac first. This is only one specific application, of course. There are many more situations in which this will work. Good parking spaces, free cupcakes, nooky. They all suddenly fall from the sky because of you leveraging your position as office lotto man. Don’t worry, these sort of things rarely come back to haunt you.
Good luck out there!