The 40 members of this IT group move into a new office space, and for the most part it’s fine. There’s just one small problem, says a pilot fish on the scene.

“The office’s interior was custom built for us, according to the big boss’s specs, of course,” fish says. “But the big boss does not like the old whiteboards we used to have on the brand new walls, so the edict goes out not to mount them.

“Everyone complains that they have no whiteboards to have discussions with, so the big boss authorizes, at some expense, to have all the white walls over-coated with whiteboard paint — basically a liquid whiteboard. The work is done and everyone is happy and we actually have more space, and more convenient space than before.

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