Workin’ for the Man

I feel like I’m being watched. They face the computers into the cubicles so that you can’t be looking at your screen and also aware of who might be looking at you. Suddenly people are behind you. The man is often quite passive aggressive. For example, often when I return from a break there is a hand-out or an updated spreadsheet or some other piece of paperwork on my chair from the Man. That’s how the Man says “I know you were gone, just letting you know that I know.”

Everyday, the Man kills at least 15 trees per employee. Though the Man has embraced email, he has really only embraced email as a way to send dual information. Anything that is sent on email will also be placed on your chair when you are not there, perhaps because of the importance of paper on the chair as depicted in the previous paragraph. The Man then gets upset if your desk is messy or disorganized, but the reality is that the Man has Himself caused the majority of the clutter that exists there.