What’s not to get? He has a bad case of unrequited crush and got friend zoned. As said, ya gotta laugh or be all sour and dramatic. He resolved to try, but Tabby brings her popcorn for all the best workplace dramas.
There were “slacker days” when I…slacked. Quite often, though, I’d have honestly done my To-Do List and had nothing on the go. I pretended to be busy because the Boss would find some miserable project to fill the time. “Those files in boxes in the basement? Find the ones from 1983-85 and organize them.”
I haven’t seen a new uptick. I recall a book published, I believe in the early 1980’s, where April Fool’s Day had morphed into “Lawyer’s Day”. Instead of everyone playing pranks on everyone, everyone only played pranks on lawyers. (and the pranks were getting especially nasty as years went by)
AH, the “Husband Chair”. Only the best shoppes have them. One dress store went to a marvellous new level of thought by providing a pool table for (whoever was waiting) to shoot some stick while the shopping went on.
Been in that situation many times!