Box Dweller Mugs

"I used to like sitting in boxes...until I started working here."

'Noticeboard? I forgot it was there to be honest.'

'I'll be late for dinner, dear. I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

Things-to-do-today: Daily workboxes piled up on desk.

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"Just one more site!" "I'm totally, like, in control!" "I can quit anytime I feel like it..."

'I just don't feel I'm getting anywhere.'

City Boy.

In case of emergency, break glass.

''A desk job.' That's what they called it at the interview.' 'Same here.' 'SHH!'

"Come and get it!"

'It's your husband. The baby won't burp for him.'

'I'm thinking of cutting my hours down to 24/7."

"So, you want your owners to write you off and treat you more like their kid?"

'It's the newest thing out. A big screen fish finder.'

'Don't worry about the company's pension plan. The way we work you, you'll be lucky to live that long!'

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

"This is Mr. Harrington, our mortgage nerd."

Businessman at a bar mad to look like desk. Bartender says: 'The usual, Mr. B?'

'Your wife called to remind you that you're married, sir.'

Platitudes for the hopelessly realistic. When life gives you lemons, get a gift receipt.

'Bring me the Wimbish report and a short worm, Ms Perkins, no time for lunch today.'

'I've noticed that no matter how busy you are, you are never too busy to stop an talk about how busy you are.'

"I think I might go outside. My fresh air app is glitchy today."

The weightless office.

"New money, Bobby, is old money that got away."

Full work boxes: 'IN and MORE IN'.

'I'd like to come home... if I could.'

Damn. Out of quarters again for the Pay Electron Microscope.

The moles have adapted to the winter weather.

Al, The Go-From Guy

"Word is that since we increased your case load, you've been living at the office."

'We were able to make a quick alliance together because of common insecurities.'

R. J. Willoby - Old Money, Old Technology, Member 'Good Old Boys Network'.

"What's the cheapest thing we can order and still get a box?"