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« More Baudrillard obits | Main | Baudrillard and 9/11 » Thursday, March 8, 2007First great workplace taleScott Eric Kaufman, editor of the fine blog Acephalous, weighs in with the first worthy office story. Actually it's kind of a doozy, and for bonus points it's rendered in dramatic format: dialog introduced by comments, minimal stage direction. It's worth reading this for yourself, but in brief, man walks into his own office, finds a young couple in flagrante. He kicks them out, provoking apparently genuine bewildering cries of harassment from the couple. What is almost better is Kaufman's Update #3 at the bottom of the post, "My Morning: The Final Chapter," which charts the rather more weighty misunderstanding that follows. Posted by Evan Hughes at 10:18 AM
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