Friday, December 16, 2005

I am the one in ten

It was our company Christmas party last night. I have no tales of predictable debauchery to share, not least because I did a runner at 11pm. I'd had enough to drink and I had to be compos mentis this morning to run a training session. I was there long to witness two of the sales guys occupying the dancefloor for a few minutes in a rather impressive American Wedding-style dance-off. This cavorting brought to mind the statistic our CEO quoted at the end of the year-end company presentation that afternoon.

He said he had been reading an article in a management magazine which among other things claimed that 10% of employees have had sex in the office. He commented with a grin that as we now have 70 staff this had caused him and our CFO to wonder which were the seven among us. All of us, including of the dancing salesman who went a curious shade of red because everyone was staring at him, had a good giggle at how preposterous this idea was. Later, though, it did occur to me that, umm, I am actually one of the seven... ;-)