"Just before you go," the Boss (Tom Schindler) cries, waving some building plans at me as I'm ducking out to lunch. "Can you just take a look at this?”

“What is it?”

"We're just looking at making a few small alterations on the third floor," he responds. "And I'd like to get your thoughts on them."

"Didn't we make some 'small' alterations to the third floor six months ago? 'Small' in that case meaning a complete revision of the floor plan, with new offices, aircon and cabling throughout."

"Yes, we apparently did do a few more changes than originally planned back then – scope creep I think they said – but the changes they're proposing now are are just a bit of fine tuning to come up with the ultimate configuration for both staff comfort and work process."

"So we changed from open plan to ...

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<basically the BOFH stories with names switched>

This story is from Rick's point of view.

"How's that paperless office coming along then?" the Boss (Tom Schindler) asks enthusiastically as he enters Mission Control on his daily rounds.

"Paperless office?" Joe asks.

"Yes, you were saying the other day that we should go to paperless.

"No I was saying how our printing and copying contract was extortionate," Joe responds. "And anyway, that's all sorted out now."

"Ah! Well. I kind of mentioned the paperless office idea to a couple of people and they're quite keen."

"Are they?" I ask.

"Well if we're talking paperless, check this out," Joe says, pointing to a web page on his screen.

"What am I looking at?" The Boss asks.

"It's the website that the ...

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