Smoke gets in the Office Space

I guess I shouldn't have taken my daily walk today. The sky seems pretty clear and the air doesn't smell as bad as yesterday but when my trip was complete I was left with a headache to the power of Tylenol sinus. Alas it will pass soon just to be replaced with the stress of dealing with my co-workers here at Dunder Mifflin West.

Here's what we got:

The old dude who thinks he deserves respect because he's old. This guy will go on and on about subjects that most of the general population doesn't know a thing about to impress them that he knows something when he is really just blowing smoke. I figured him out early on when he informed everyone that the word Tiramisu was based on the root word "Terra" meaning earth because it is traditionally made of sponge cake covered in espresso so that it looks like a cross section of the earth.

The "C" level manager that worked his way up from the assembly line to the Board of Directors yet never took a management class in his life and thus does not know how to relate to or manage people. The guy that loves to impress people with sophisticated concepts like "metaphors" and can never admit to being "wrrr", "wrrron", wrong.

The mid-level manager who got dumped into his role by accident and got the responsibility but no raise and no new title. He's the guy that the "C" level dude dumps is trash on. While the mid-level dude fears the people below him who might know more than he and has no concept of what half of people in his department do and thus cannot properly evaluate them. He has to do what he can to keep the smart people below him at bay and in turn they are not utilized for their full worth while he promotes "the old guy" to unknown heights of incompetence and failure.

The twenty-ish "supervisor" who management likes because she is cute and personable. Truth is she is smart and she thinks she is ready to run the department but lacks the necessary training & experience to handle such a role. She doesn't realize that the reason she is getting kudos from management is because they are using her to advance their agenda at half the cost of a qualified supervisor. Some lessons cannot be taught in school and must be learned through experience.

Then there's the guy who has but one thing left that his truely his, the red stapler, and it's just a matter of time before they take it away from him.