My boss sent me an email to let me know he’d requested the IT department to move me from my cube to the new office (they have to change the phone extension and move my computer. Admittedly, it’s a laptop, but they’re picky about keeping track of where computers are.)
I responded to his email with the following:
Well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Fish don’t fry in the kitchen;
Beans don’t burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin’,
Just to get up that hill.
Now we’re up in the big leagues,
Gettin’ our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it’s you and me baby,
There ain’t nothin wrong with that.
Well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
He responded, “Thank you, Mr. Jefferson.”
You used company resources to Google those lyrics.
You betcha’.
To write this, too.
Google?
You mean you didn’t piece it together from memory. I sat there for 10 minutes trying to decide if you left out a “baby” on the last refrain.
Are you getting a window and everything?
Dude, one wall is ALL window.
*sniff*
Don’t forget about all the little people once you’re settled into office.
And you are… ?
Now you can moon people!
With impunity, since it’s one-way glass.
I was planning on using those lyrics on my change of address cards. Hrm.
Back to the old drawring board.
How about Billy Joel’s “Movin’ Out”?
Eh. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just put a funny drawring on it or something.
“Funky Town”?
It hardly seems worth it, since I’ve been moved for a four months now, but people are starting to bitch at me about it. Plus I feel like it’s an end untied.
Yeah. How come I haven’t gotten a change-of-address notice, huh? What’s that about?
And while you’re at it, how come I never knew your old address either?
Get on the stick, already!
My old address is 3551 Orchard Circle. I’m sure the English lady who lives there now would love to make your acquaintance.
I know her. She keeps bitchin’ about how she never got a change-of-address card from you.
Only she says it all proper and stuff.
Everything she says sounds better than anything I say, no matter what it is.
If she’s bitching about the change of address card, that must mean she’s given up on trying to get me to go in on some electrical updates for her AS IS house.
Maybe “AS IS” means something different in British English. Y’know, like “biscuit”.
Or “knocked up”?
I didn’t know there was another meaning for “knocked up”. Pray, tell.