i used to just walk right out of the building, get a coffee and read the paper for a half hour. if anyone asked, i always told them i was helping event planning and they understood and accepted it as a good reason.
you see, event planning had 6 of the best looking women all working in the same department. they were surrounded by people who had degrees in finance, accounting, actuarial studies, and MBAs, all of whom could claim they were doing important work and that required priority from internal services.
to remedy this, event planning had developed a subtle but effective technique to get priority from internal services: their cleavage. internal services consisted of 8 guys, 5 of them single, all between 18 and 25 years of age.
at the time, i thought i was in love with a girl so i guess i was largely immune to this technique, but the situation meant that i could always claim that i was helping out somewhere else, and never be followed up about it. no one ever enquired about what event planning was doing. they just knew that event planning was always doing something, and that it was much more interesting to try and sneak a peak at their breasts than ever try and work out the specifics of their duties.
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sorry about my face guys