[Intro: Spoken Male Voice]
Calendar alert at one:
"Optional social. Mandatory fun."
The dress code said "Whatever you please."
The RSVP had one choice: "Agree."

[Chorus: Mixed Gang Vocals]
Mandatory fun, attendance one by one.
Smile for the camera till the workday's done.
Free to skip the party, free to cut and run;
your manager is counting. Mandatory fun.

[Verse 1: Male Lead]
At six, they poured warm soda into cups.
The dee-jay played the approved company list.
A trust fall started by the swimming pool;
the night crew watched their pizza stiffen cold.
Their pagers flashed beneath the paper plates.
A supervisor checked the names in twice.

[Pre-Chorus: Corporate Male Voice]
"Relax. This time belongs to everyone.
Now face the lens and show that you're on board."

[Chorus: Mixed Gang Vocals]
Mandatory fun, attendance one by one.
Smile for the camera till the workday's done.
Free to skip the party, free to cut and run;
your manager is counting. Mandatory fun.

[Verse 2: Male Lead]
Nina sang one line, then took a call.
The crowd kept clapping at the empty stage.
A developer passed on karaoke;
his supervisor wrote "quiet" by his name.
Fiona found the spreadsheet near the bar:
green meant "here"; red meant "not a fit."

[Pre-Chorus: Female Lead]
I turned the tablet over, screen-side down.

[Pre-Chorus: Male Baritone]
Victor waved the photographer around.

[Drum Break: Roll-Call Snare and Floor Toms]

[Bridge: Female Lead]
"Voluntary means no mark beside a name,
no loyalty test, no penalty for rest."

[Bridge: Male Baritone]
Victor pulled the microphone cable free.
"The raffle starts at seven. Join the rest."

[Shouted: Gang Vocals]
Name by name!
Line by line!
Smile on cue!
Unpaid time!

[Final Chorus: Mixed Gang Vocals]
Mandatory fun, attendance one by one.
We left before the raffle had begun.
Free to skip? They colored every name.
We tore the wristbands, walked out of the game.
The group shot cropped the empty chairs at dawn.
Mandatory fun, with half the workers gone.

[Outro: Male Lead]
At eight, the photos filled the room.
No pagers, exits, paper cups in view.
The caption said, "Our Culture Crew."
Mandatory fun.