Matt says I always try to have the last word–and he’s right.

After my co-worker “decorated” my cube, I began scheming of what I could do to get her back. Since she was on vacation all week, I had plenty of time to put my plan into action. I saved two garbage bags full of shredded paper from the office shredder and created a bunch of Photoshopped faces of my co-worker. I then taped the faces up around her office, along with quotes that often are heard coming out of her mouth: “I volunteer Mel.” “I am an ATM.” “Please let me work with the difficult clients.” “Slacker!” “Where are all the red jellybeans?” (She says that, knowing I like to eat them.) “I LOVE short meetings!”

Another co-worker and I lined her cube floor with newspaper (for easy clean up) and then, the fun part, dumped the two bags of shredded paper all around her cube. Since doing so, I have had people tell me that they don’t want to get on my bad side. “What do you mean?” I ask innocently. “This is how I show that I care!” After Nathalie has been gone for a whole week, I figured this would be a great way to show her I missed her.