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Occurrences in Modern Corporate Life

Miss a day, miss a lot: take a Monday off and folks will make a beeline to your desk on Tuesday to find out how your weekend was, as if you might've traveled to Ethiopia and halted deforestation during that time. Their timing is a bit off; for me, on Tuesday mornings after taking off Monday, I'm groggily re-adjusting to corporate life and am just starting my caffeine drip. I appreciate their enthusiasm afterwards though.

Late to the 'vator, ripe for jokes: Few things prompt more commentary than making a dash for the closing doors of an elevator. The way this is done is merely passing your hand between the closing doors, but you'd think you'd just hiked Mt. Everest. Comments like, "that was brave - I'm always afraid I'd lose my arm!" issue forth. Or comments like, "I'm sorry!", for not hitting the 'door open' button as if they were responsible for having a premonition that I was approaching. And of course the old standby is to say, "If I knew it was you I would've hit door close!"

Meetings shan't last for less than the scheduled amount of time. It's apparently a faux paus to adjourn a half-hour meeting in ten or fifteen minutes. I can only guess that the person calling the meeting feels sheepish if it's too short, as if it's some reflection on him for calling a meeting that might not have been necessary or that could've been handled by a phone call.