There's this whole "Monkey on your desk" concept going around and I'm not sure I'm on board with it. The concept is to not let anyone leave a monkey on your desk. The translation is that if someone comes to you with a problem make sure they leave with it.
The undertone is that this applies when people shouldn't be shifting their problem to someone else. Sometimes the monkey really belongs to another person, and the situation is probably more of a case of "I'm returning your monkey, you left it down the hall". The think I'm not pleased about is the temptation I see for people to ignore the undertone, and just go with a "No Monkey Parking" philosophy. I can actually see it now, little signs that have a silhouette of a monkey with a red circle and slash through it.
Maybe I'm just jealous. The chant is a simple to remember (and appealing to enforce), but in my current assignment I'm pretty much a monkey nanny. I can't just tell people to take care of their own damn monkey when I'm being paid to clean up monkey poo. So while those around me act like primate-haters, I'm knee deep in…well, you get the picture.
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