kiddharma
Patti Smith
I'd written this on my whiteboard late one afternoon, just before I left work; I took a photo of it, in the idea of perhaps creating a series of whiteboard quotes/scribbles/daily meanderings with dry erase markers. The next morning, just as I was settling in to the workday, a group of suits from HR walked past my cube. A few minutes later, our department's admin came and whispered to me, "What do you have on your whiteboard?"
"Oh," I looked at what I'd written. "A quote from Patti Smith."
"Well, you better erase it; those people from HR saw it and were commenting on it; a couple of them were offended, but they thot maybe someone had played a joke on you by writing that."
I sighed. The opening lines of Smith's "Babelouge" are certainly not a joke. But I erased it. I still need this job.
Patti Smith
I'd written this on my whiteboard late one afternoon, just before I left work; I took a photo of it, in the idea of perhaps creating a series of whiteboard quotes/scribbles/daily meanderings with dry erase markers. The next morning, just as I was settling in to the workday, a group of suits from HR walked past my cube. A few minutes later, our department's admin came and whispered to me, "What do you have on your whiteboard?"
"Oh," I looked at what I'd written. "A quote from Patti Smith."
"Well, you better erase it; those people from HR saw it and were commenting on it; a couple of them were offended, but they thot maybe someone had played a joke on you by writing that."
I sighed. The opening lines of Smith's "Babelouge" are certainly not a joke. But I erased it. I still need this job.