OFFICE DESK COLLECTS WEIRDOS

Office work is a game of territory and if you don’t recognize the boundaries right away you’ll fall behind.

Sometimes the boundaries are all too visible, sometimes not, just don’t be the last person to miss them.

For example:

Are you the worker at the office desk pretending to join the team, embracing challenge and change, but secretly seething? It’s no secret.

Do you work in an office with special communication codes? What are those, you ask?

Imagine a small office with the administrative desk near the front door to handle all walk in business. The young lady at the desk works full time, goes to night school, and always finds better ways to do business.

Older men in the office always have congestion when they find themselves near her, clearing their throats and snorkeling their noses.

No, it’s not post-nasal drip, it’s professional jealousy. They can’t express how envious they are that she’s launching another phase of the same career they could have had if they weren’t so lazy and weak minded.

So they snort and hack their disdain instead. Watch out for the next sniffer at work, it could be a message.

A training desk in an open floor plan office next to the trainer is stacked. The trainer’s desk is clear.

This means the trainee is doing all the work while the trainer takes naps in a bathroom stall because they have a night job, too. It works out. If there’s a problem, the trainee knows which stall to knock on, which one to slip papers under.

If this was your office procedure, what would you do?

For starters, adjust your shit detector, trainee.