Prohibition and Contrabando

Some say that Laws are made to be Broken. I don't agree with that. However, STUPID RULES are set with the only purpose of being trashed and broken. This is the particular case of the Coffee PROHIBITION Rule brainlessly set in the Babel Tower by the Assistents and Change Managing and Moving to the New Building Committee... or something of the sort. Yeah, do you remember that show, "Malcom in the Middle"? Yeah, and the opening song? "You are not the boss of me"? Yeah, would like to download it and play it each and everytime the hags do their "rounds" to make sure "people are abbiding to the law". Yeah, they do that. As a matter of fact, one of our Assistent commented how she saw "people" (namely our little Covenant) breaking the rules and bringing coffee in thermos. The result? By Today in the morning the number of thermos in the cubicles grew over night exponentially.

Coincidentally all of these conspicuous thermos seen around kind of seemed as if they cointained "contrabando". People who have never been seen with a thermos suddenly had them perched on their desks, also coincidentally next to a mug stained with old brownish stains... the kind many years of coffee pouring do to the sturdy porcelain. It seems that the "strategy to shame the infractors" worked "agains the system", pushig up to then rule-abiding-employees to commit contrabando crimes. Stainless steel bullets tower up here and there, some even brought pitchers and then older model coloured plastic thermos also pop up here and there. 

Then, to add insult to injury, my boss, the Lord bless his kind soul, strolled into our alley, coffee cup in hand and slowly, very visibly, sat down with us to chat and share some improvised breakfast of cookies and coffee. He did not made a secret out of the fact that he WAS drinking coffee HERE with us, but happily anounced it to anyone willing to listen. Chuck, I do have the best boss of the whole company. Yes, you are invited to envy me. :-)

Well children, lets be honest, which office in the PLANET works without coffee? It's like a bar that doesn't sell beer: it does not exist. You can take away the breakfast on the desk, you can take away the office walls, you can take away the privacy, you can take away the parking lots, the vending machines, the better schedules, the printing machines, the printing rights even, the personalization of the space, the safety features, but cannot take away the coffee, because when it comes to it, we are all jittering Hoopses&Yoyos here.

And so the People rebelled against the System and presented their silent protest, making a blatant statement of the ground they would defend, the turf they will not give up. Yes, we acknowledge that you are stupid and your leveled self esteem demands you to bully others in order to feel, if not good about yourself, pretend that you are still more than others, so be it, but coffee is Sacred. You touch it and we will exterminate you.