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Or four-ply. Or eight-ply. Sixteen? Let's not get carried away.

In another two years, I'll be telling the new guys "In my day, we didn't have these fancy rocket packs that let us fly to Venus and telecommute from Robo-Katherine Hepburn's Space Palace of Pleasure."

Two years! It'll happen!

~OLJ

Then again, I know some coworkers that manage to botch the coffee pot pretty poorly. This might explain it...

Much like in this comic, our friend Office Lackey Jack was recently promoted - and now delegates all of his work to me. Hopefully I'll be able to fill his shoes, even though I'm grossly under-qualified and made up half of the stuff on my resume for this job.

In other words, everything is as you'd expect here at Monday Through Friday!

Your new lackey,

Water Cooler Chris

(But no, seriously, I can totally program in C++ and have several years of experience in team management and group communication. Honest!)

...and yet after all that, we still make it to work on time anyway:

"It's genetic, man! I was born this way and I'll never change!"

"Whoa. Way too deep."

I'll bet he let it slide and pretended his name was "Speaking." That's what I would've done. #awkward

~OLJ

It's possible I exaggerate my weekend plans from time to time in order to make myself seem more exciting to coworkers. OKAY YOU GOT ME.

~OLJ

It isn't the waitstaff's only job to serve you. They're also interpreters that can skillfully translate a wide variety of awkward-speak.

~OLJ

Just make sure you pull out the right pen when you actually need to write something. Nothing's worse than handing something in to HR smelling like it came from a 1960s advertising agency.

That's what SHE said, amirite? Amirite?

holds hand up for high-five, is left hanging

~OLJ

Of all the blob-people, the Tech Support guy is the only one who's frowning when he's introduced. He can see it coming.

~OLJ