Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Of softboards, markers and staplers

Something feels weird. Something not quite right. This is not the matrix so it is probably just normal paranoia. And yet it is not.

What is it then? Is the chair not right? Is the AC not quite the correct temperature? Are the people all wrong?

Bingo!

It appears that there is an unwritten rule to come into office or work in general with a facade fully in place that will not be taken off until one leaves. A mask that will smile at every person who sits in the general vicinity even though there is no real emotion in the action. A voice that will laugh loudly at the most idiotic jokes. An action that indicates friendship although it has a different meaning depending on which side of it one is. Something is definitely missing in this picture. And it just so happens to be people.

Perhaps the company's terminology of "resources" for employees is not so far off after all.

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