When I went into work today, I was reminded of another type of occupational hazard - Office Zombies!
Office Zombies are different from garden variety zombies in that they are not un-dead. They are (at least temporarily) brain dead souls who occupy the bodies of your co-workers. They take your chair when you are away from your desk and then replace it with a chair that is six inches shorter than yours and wobbles slightly so that you are seriously seasick by lunchtime.
Office Zombies believe that anything in plain sight is theirs. This includes your chair, your desk, your computer and monitor, and that set of really nice pens you bought yourself because the pens in the supply room were crap.
Sometimes they ask politely to "borrow" your space for a meeting or some other work-related crisis. "That shouldn't be problem," you think. After all, you're all on the same team, right?
Wrong.
They are on the Zombie Team and don't play by human rules. When you return, you find that your mouse is on the opposite side of the keyboard, your monitor has been moved to a point precariously close to the edge of the desk, and your stash of emergency chocolate (which you had carefully hidden in the bottom desk drawer under that hideous sweater you don't mind leaving at the office because it is so incredibly ugly no one would ever be tempted to steal it) is - gone!
Fight Office Zombie-ism. Leave stuff the way you found it. Return what you borrow. The Zombies will see you and copy you because they want to avoid detection. Someday they might even get their brains back and do these things on their own. The day may come when you can shout from the rooftops that your office is a Zombie-free zone!
Maybe not.
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