Archive for January 13th, 2010
In general, my office is quite normal in the traditional sense of a business office. There are cubicles, phones ringing, lots of clicking of keys, and the occasional group of suits walking around or meeting in the conference room. But one unique feature of my office is the cubicle owned by my co-worker, who is right across from mine. Jane, who is my co-worker, must have about a hundred novelty coffee mugs, as well as an automatic espresso machine, in her cubicle. We always joke around in the break room that if one of us ever forget our thermos, we’ll just go over to her cubicle and get a cup of java while she’s not looking.
One day, another co-worker, Steve, went over to her office and borrowed one of her novelty coffee mugs when she wasn’t around. When she came back, she was in her cubicle for about 10 seconds, and she came storming out and yelled “Who took my elephant coffee mug?!” Steve came out of his cubicle and apologized and gave it back, she gave him a dirty look and then went back to work. Now I know I’d better just go without coffee if I forget my thermos!