Required “Fun” Lunch

So, today I got a meeting request for a “fun” lunch to celebrate the recent reorganization of my department. Just to get you up to speed, the reorganization went something like this:
1. Write down what everyone already does
2. Review this list and then move people into teams without changing their actual job duties or titles
3. Give everyone a new desk and/or boss without changing job duties or responsibilities
Reorganization Complete!
That sounded fun, didn’t it?

So anyway, this was clearly something worth celebrating so we were all invited to sit in a conference room and eat pizza during our normal lunch break. I don’t particularly enjoy being forced to cower in a conference room and make small talk with my colleagues at a time when I’m normally allowed to run free but I’m not going to be the one to blow the cover on this operation, so I went. It was fun.

When I got back to my desk I started to feel restless, since I didn’t get my normal 30 minutes running on the wheel that I usually require, and needed some fresh air. My office is in the suburbs with nothing to do so the options were to either drive around in my car and waste gas or stand in the parking lot. I wish there was a bench or something so I could sit outside, but since there isn’t I chose b. stand in the parking lot. As I was standing there it must have looked inviting because slowly but surely 3 of my co-workers came outside and stood in the parking lot with me. We shot the breeze for about 20 minutes and then went back inside to our cages, I mean cubes, and went back to typing away. The parking lot was most definitely the highlight of my day.