Thursday, April 3, 2008

Musial Chairs - Le Office style

There is a game that is played every morning in office. Men and women in as-crisp-as-you-can-expect-after-travel-to-the-middle-of-nowhere-but-oh-so-spacious-and-green-office formal attire scramble around the office to find their chair. Adults strategize to get that chair they've had their eye on for the last week back into their cubicle in front of their PC. One would expect factory-made chairs bought at the same time to be alike. But reality doesnt conform to expectations. Chairs, like people, age differently. Some age gracefully, some start creaking at the joints, some lose their cushioning due to harsh Nature or the heaviness of bottoms resting on it. It is imperative to find the right chair for one's comfort of body and mind, and of course, it is expected that these would then lead to increased productivity [ Companies dont spend extra for egonomically designed chairs out of concern for your spinal chord].
Every sport must have its spectators and organizers to survive. In this popular game, I believe they are one and the same. The organizers re-arrange the chairs at around 7 am every morning and later grab a pack of popcorn, sit back and watch through security cameras. Think Shah Rukh or Preity might be interested?