my stupidest reason for getting into trouble at work...

i really like my job.

and to lose it over something as stupid as a shower curtain would be just my luck.

allow me to explain...

business has been great for the company and they've been hiring like crazy.

the only down side to this is that we have quickly run out of room to put all of the employees.

so, a temporary solution was provided with recent reconstruction efforts.

this is all fine and dandy with me.

except for the really, really annoying habit that some of my coworkers have of bumping the back of my chair while trying to squeeze past me.

mind you, they are saving less than ten feet of travel by doing this.

after a week of these shortcuts constantly interrupting my workflow, i decided to take action.

i told my boss that i was going to put up a shower curtain to stem the pedestrian tides.

she laughed and thought that i was joking.

oh no, my friends, this was war.

the gauntlet had been thrown down. the die was cast. there would be no survivors.

the following thursday, i stayed after work for a few minutes and hung the now infamous curtain.

penguins with googly eyes was just the threatening message that i wanted to send.

to quote network, they seemed to scream, "i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore!"

i got a lot of giggles from passers-by as i was hanging it up.

amanda, who sits caddy-corner from me even got some pictures (at right).

well... my angry penguin statement didn't last long.

the following morning the curtain was folded up in my chair with a note from one of the executives that i was not allowed to creatively define my workspace this way.

as i related this story to my dad, i remembered all of the times i got in trouble while i was in high school.

never was i censured for fighting or contraband substances, usually it was for goofball crap like this.

i guess some things will never change.