Kill this joke
November 13th, 2007 by Cali & Jody
We invite you to read “Study Finds Working at Work Improves Productivity” from The Onion and have a good laugh.
That was nice, wasn’t it?
We love good office humor, but over the years these kinds of jokes have also made us increasingly sad. Because the underlying assumption of all office humor is that the workplace sucks and it will never, ever, ever change. Work is a life sentence with no chance of parole. Since you’re powerless when it comes to doing anything about it, you may as well laugh and make the best of it.
Now that technology has made it possible to work anytime, anywhere, work doesn’t have to be a prison. In a Results-Only Work Environment work is something you do, not a place you go. Right now, only a small percentage of the workforce plays by these new rules, but that is changing. We can see a day when the assumptions behind the aforementioned article simply aren’t true anymore. Hopefully The Onion will still be funny, but they’ll have to find something else to joke about.
Well put- gotta love the Onion!
Funny; after attending your ASTD seminar yesterday, I grabbed a copy of the Onion on my way to happy hour and enjoyed this article over a pint. I cut it out, circulated it among my like-minded peers, and posted it on my cube this morning (curse words omitted- ha).
We all agreed it was hilarous, appropriate, and validating that it happens in more places than our office. It also uncovers the grim reality that ’space fillers’ live every day. Thanks for leading this important charge of rethinking our work environment!