As I walked to the station after work last night, I saw a man walking along with the back of an office chair under his arm. It made me wonder if it would be possible to steal an entire office piece by piece and then put it back together again elsewhere – and how long would it take anyone to notice. Imagine how every evening you could sneak out another key from someone’s computer keyboard and then 110 days later (this is obviously the more time consuming method of doing it), you could take a manual to work out how to put a keyboard back together. Then you could start on the paper clips... I’m not sure that I have really thought this plan through.
I got an e-mail from one of my bosses yesterday. I had asked if I could refuse to go to a work meeting because it was scheduled at 12-2pm. I was told that I couldn’t really get away with an outright refusal but that she would see what could be dine about providing edible bribes. I really object to meetings at anti-social times be that early in the morning or that take up the entire lunch period – and anything that affects my ability to consume food (or to sleep) is always going to draw my ire. I’m on a mission to bring a work life balance back into the working world.
3 comments:
Yay for bringing back a work life balance back into the working world! I hope you succeed or, at the very least, have edible bribes.
And about your plan to steal an office, bit by bit. I think it might take you years. But you had me laughing at the idea of stealing a keyboard piece by piece. :-)
I get irate if I have a meeting across lunch...
I put in dummy meetings so no-one can book me in at this time.
CW - I think it might be an uphill struggle, but I am willing to give it a go.
Stealing a keyboard piece by piece might mean a rather limited number of words that could be used until the task was complete. I think you'd have to choose very carefully the order in which to take the letters.
Kahless - what a great tip. I might try that.
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