Daily Thoughts for the Office

Management has created a wonderful solution, now they're looking for a problem to go with it. Because of his ongoing ability to increase office productivity, the "employee of the month" award again goes to Mr. Coffee. At my office we're like a family, a very dysfunctional family. I accidentally listened to my motivation tapes backwards and became a failure. Our goal is to establish language that is gender-neutral, ethnic-neutral, and age neutral while celebrating our spirit of diversity.
Originally published November 14, 2002.