from the office monkey…

Cubicle Parthenon

Chris had foot surgery which took him out of the office for a couple weeks.
Chris’ coworkers missed him.
They were very sad.
“Why don’t we wrap all his stuff in plastic wrap before he returns to show him how much he was missed?” they asked one another. “That way, when he spends all that time unwrapping everything, he’ll realise how happy we are that he’s back!”
“It’s been done before.” said one coworker.
“And it takes too long!” said another.
They agreed that they didn’t miss him THAT much.

“We could just burn all his stuff into a giant, smoldering pile of ash in the middle of the office?” suggested Greg.

The rest of the team explained to Greg that although his suggestion was AWESOME and showed great imagination, it wasn’t likely that management would approve of such an activity, so “please remember that saying ‘No’ to your suggestion wasn’t our idea, and please don’t knife any of us after work as a result.”

Greg said he’d think about it, and then he proceeded to staple his tongue to the desk for fun.

“We could always build something based on Greek or Roman architecture as a wordplay on ‘pediments’ and his recent foot surgery?” said Monkey.
Someone threw a paperweight at Monkey’s head.

No one likes a nerd with a superiority complex.

“I think it thoundth cool…” said Greg.
As it turns out, Greg and Monkey had more free time than everyone else.

“The difference between ‘ideas’ which we think of everyday and the occasional great idea, is that great ideas compel us to tell someone and take action… great ideas are dangerous for one reason: they change the status quo. For many, status quo means doing what everyone else is…but what we all need to remember is that fitting-in means that you are boring…individuals that choose to ‘go with the flow’ and make no effort to be ‘remarkable,’ are replaceable.”
~ Joseph Yi (entrepreneur, Director of Marketing for Viralogy)

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