Fair Game
I’ve been with my company for eleven years, and in all that time it’s been a well-known secret that when someone leaves, whatever was left in their cube or office is fair game for the takers. A week ago, I was working with a colleague and in the process of a project discovered two, fancy, expensive ergonomic desk chairs that had been abandoned. These chairs are like gold, and it’s very difficult to get your hands on one.
We immediately looked at each other, knowing what the other one was thinking. The only problem we could foresee was the chairs were on the other side of the building from our department. We couldn’t believe they hadn’t already been scavenged. The week went by, and we thought if they were still available the next week, we would make our plan to confiscate the goods……HA!
The day prior, we made sure the chairs were still available, put our plan in place, and would arrive at work earlier than most people…..basically at the crack of dawn. Once we both arrived, we made our way to the other side, nabbed the chairs and headed back. What we hadn’t plan for was the loud, annoying, racket the chairs made going across the tile floor…..for the love of.
On our journey, we encountered an employee they we’d seen over the years, but didn’t know very well. We smiled as we acted like it was a normal occurrence to be moving chairs at dawn. We were doing everything to keep from busting out laughing at our antics, and seemed to take us forever to get to our area.
We finally arrived at each of our destinations, I was thrilled as I sat down, but almost flew out of it backwards. The chair was reclined as far as it could go. As well as being reclined it was so low, it was almost like sitting on the floor……WHAT? It had several levers and buttons and none seemed to be working properly. After fiddling with them for a bit, thought I needed help.
I quickly ran to my friend’s office and she was having the exact same issues. OMG…..they were both broken! We burst out laughing. It was clear why no one had confiscatedEven though the chairs were fair game according to the well-known secret, we certainly learned our lesson that morning, and won’t be confiscating chairs, anytime soon. Why do we think there is always something better around the corner? It’s the illusions they create that draw people in. Our chairs were much better than the illusion of the fancy, expensive ones. Being happy in the present will serve us far better than being potentially happy with something on the horizon.
xoxox…..Sheryl
PS….the one positive outcome of the story was we worked up a healthy sweat….haha the chairs…..LOL! Now what? Ummm…..we have to freaking take the chairs back to the other side…..are you kidding me?!
Here we go again……for a second time making a loud, irritating racket, feeling like fools. Why we didn’t make sure before we took them is beyond both of us….deserves us right! Who do you think we ran into for the second time that morning? The same gentlemen we passed earlier. We commented about the broken chairs and he had already known……oh my gosh….no words!