Office Life

When you work in an office, there are definitely things you learn.  It's like its own little ecosystem, but every office shares pretty much the same "species" of people and the same mundane issues.  Here's what you learn when you work in an office.

~ No matter how brainy a computer geek is, some aspects of common sense escape them.  They can tell you how exactly a computer works, step by step, but possibly forget to eat lunch.  

~ CC, POC and calendar invite become part of everyday language and you use them in sentences even when you said you never would.

~ Admins rule the world and if you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you.  In reverse, if you're evil to them, they can make life difficult.

~ Supplies are raided without warning and if you don't lock them down, you're screwed.

~ There is literally food everywhere which is fabulous for when the techy computer geeks forget to eat lunch.

~Managers are much too important to make their own coffee, clean up their own messes or send their own emails.

~ People put too much stock in what exactly is in the coke machine (or what's lacking, more clearly) what's free that day for lunch and what can be done for them.

~ Lights are over-rated.  Mornings sitting at your desk in quiet solitude in the dark, are a wonderful way to start the day.  Until of course, someone believes the opposite and ruins the whole mood.

~ And last but not least, not to get all ageist, but the ones that have been around for a long time always think they know more than the newer ones, which just makes life difficult for everyone.

But I gotta admit, and I never thought I'd say this, but office life is pretty good sometimes.