In the Dark

Yesterday I came across the old cartoon shown above and shared it on Bluesky. It seemed to cause some amusement so I thought I’d share it here too.

The in-tray reminds me of when I (briefly) worked in industry during the 80s. There was a guy in our large open-plan office who had two trays on his desk, one with a sign marked “IN” and the other with a sign marked “OUT”. Things were delivered on Mondays to the in-trays and collected from out-trays at the end of the day on Fridays. This guy never touched the stuff in his in-tray but just before he left work on Fridays he would swap the signs on the two trays…

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