work anecdote

Yes, I have a job, and yes, I go to it everyday. Generally I don't speak much about my job in this blog, and this post is an eloquent example there of - I will not be speaking about what I do at work that earns me income.

Sometime last summer our newer CEO brought in a ping-pong table, pool table and foosball table to give the employees a diversion that up until then was not possible. It has come to a daily routine that I and three others play immediately after eating our lunch. Invariably we get quite hot as a result of the exertion required to play this game. Today there was a conversation that forms the impetus for this post:

MES: I should get a fan like ARI has at his desk
me: wouldn't that get kind of noisy? I mean...
MES and me at the same time: (MES: no, ARI's fan isn't noisy) (me: 'GO MES GO! woo hoo! Go MES GO!!)
a moment passes
MES: oh, no, not that kind of fan, it took me a while but I got it