In the Office - Part 1
I want to tell you about what we have to put up with in our office. But don’t worry, the people that I am about to describe know what I’m going to say about them. We have a meeting once a week and everyone talks about how their week went, what bugs, what makes us happy. So they have already heard everything I’m going to say here today.
Rest assured, no coworkers have been harmed in the making of this speech.
We have some people who come in all cheerful. Good morning, everyone! How are you doing today! I hate that. What’s up with that? Other people come in in stealth mode and go straight to their cubicles without talking to anyone.
We have some people who are really energetic all day, papers flying out of their cubicles. It’s really exhausting. For the rest of us, anyway. Other people work quietly. I think they’re working quietly. They might be asleep. Or maybe they’re just on the internet.
We have resolved all our conflicts by talking openly with each other, with compassion. But we found out we could still stir up trouble by getting the people down the hall involved. We thought about inviting them to our meeting but we were doing too much therapy already.
We do have to talk to them, though, because that’s how we find out what’s going on. We have to keep our contacts open so that we know when anybody gets permission to buy something. Then we can rush in a request because we know there's money.
We were a little worried about some of our people. We thought we might have some people that might be, well, you know, stupid or lazy or maybe even crazy. So we gave them all achievement tests, efficiency tests, psychological tests. It turned out well, though. We found out we’re all crazy. That was a real relief, because some of us thought we might have to straighten up.
Oh well, I might as well tell you. Stupid/smart, lazy/energetic, crazy/sane. I’ve really only been talking about one person. Me. Because I’m all those things. How about you?
It’s really not our fault though. You know that any company’s culture comes down from the top. Let me tell you about our boss...
Rest assured, no coworkers have been harmed in the making of this speech.
We have some people who come in all cheerful. Good morning, everyone! How are you doing today! I hate that. What’s up with that? Other people come in in stealth mode and go straight to their cubicles without talking to anyone.
We have some people who are really energetic all day, papers flying out of their cubicles. It’s really exhausting. For the rest of us, anyway. Other people work quietly. I think they’re working quietly. They might be asleep. Or maybe they’re just on the internet.
We have resolved all our conflicts by talking openly with each other, with compassion. But we found out we could still stir up trouble by getting the people down the hall involved. We thought about inviting them to our meeting but we were doing too much therapy already.
We do have to talk to them, though, because that’s how we find out what’s going on. We have to keep our contacts open so that we know when anybody gets permission to buy something. Then we can rush in a request because we know there's money.
We were a little worried about some of our people. We thought we might have some people that might be, well, you know, stupid or lazy or maybe even crazy. So we gave them all achievement tests, efficiency tests, psychological tests. It turned out well, though. We found out we’re all crazy. That was a real relief, because some of us thought we might have to straighten up.
Oh well, I might as well tell you. Stupid/smart, lazy/energetic, crazy/sane. I’ve really only been talking about one person. Me. Because I’m all those things. How about you?
It’s really not our fault though. You know that any company’s culture comes down from the top. Let me tell you about our boss...
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