Chaos Reading discussion

The story is here:
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011...

I really enjoyed this story- like Kafka with an actually good sense of humour :p

To those of you with office jobs, is a non-surreal version of this a reflection of your workplace? (Mine does not contain "characters", it contains Norwegians.)

Kind of... I have a co-worker who likes lizards so she has lizard knickknacks and ornaments, but it's not quite as exaggerated as PEN GWEN. And it's hard for them to let people go where I work, so that breeds its own minority of abusers.

I can see the Norwegians giving you an orientation like this, no?

Fun story--thanks for posting!

Aha, thanks for reading Marc!

This story was a lot of fun for me too :) I wish the Norwegians made it clear how weird they were!

Apart from tonight when they were all very lovely.

But this is perfect first day on new job weirdness fun a la Saunders thought I :-) :-)

(Was out partying Stavanger style last night so I just had to edit the drunk out of my last post)

Yeah we are open plan in Norway with some "quiet rooms" for calls and stuff but everyone in my department is v nice- lots of laughs and minimal gossip :D