I sat at an arts/crafts fair the other day with Benno Hutcho. I knew I wouldn’t sell many comics there, so, in the spirit of my delightful workplace tragedy “The Bret Braddock Adventures”, I thought instead I’d see if the nice people in attendance had any interesting “bad workplace” stories.
One lady told about her extremely hard-core Christian colleague, who bawled someone in the office out for saying “Oh my God”.
Another found the glass windows and doors in her workplace disturbing… “everyone could see everything”.
You can really see the pain on people’s faces when they try to describe what’s bad about their workplaces… several people couldn’t think of a specific anecdote that summed it up. For them it was just the everyday “vibe” of the place.
I’m thinking of making myself a shirt with Bret on it in the Uncle Sam hat: “WE WANT YOU… TO STOP ASKING WHERE YOUR SUPERANNUATION WENT”.