{"id":31982,"date":"2012-12-31T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/empty-chairs-in-empty-cubicles.html"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:29:10","slug":"empty-chairs-in-empty-cubicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/empty-chairs-in-empty-cubicles.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Empty Chairs in Empty Cubicles&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow claps (and glances at the movie schedule for the afternoon showing of Les Mis).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912'>Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tribute to all my unlucky\/lucky friends who have to work today and tomorrow, with thanks to <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117440218070026287375\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"117440218070026287375\">Chris Weeda<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s an envy can&#39;t be spoken.<br \/>There&#39;s a pain that few will know.<br \/>Empty chairs in empty cubicles<br \/>Everyone&#39;s on P T O.<\/p>\n<p>Here they talked of New Year&#39;s gath&#39;rings.<br \/>What they&#39;d do and who they&#39;d see.<br \/>Here they planned their bubbly drinking<br \/>They got time off, unlike me.<\/p>\n<p>From the cube off in the corner<br \/>I could see them eye the door<br \/>And then they rose with voices ringing<br \/>I can hear them now!<\/p>\n<p>The Auld Lang Syne that they had sung<br \/>Became their last communion<br \/>At the lonely bathroom sink at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my friends, my friends forgive me<br \/>That I laugh at all your groans.<br \/>At the boiling in your stomach.<br \/>At heads throbbing as you moan.<\/p>\n<p>No faces at the monitors.<br \/>No shadows on the floor.<br \/>Empty chairs in empty cubicles<br \/>Where meetings meet no more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my friends, my friends, don&#39;t ask me<br \/>If it was all some kind of trick<br \/>Empty chairs in empty cubicles<br \/>Because everyone called in sick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SM55poJReDg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow claps (and glances at the movie schedule for the afternoon showing of Les Mis). Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman A tribute to all my unlucky\/lucky friends who have to work today and tomorrow, with thanks to +Chris Weeda. There&#39;s an envy can&#39;t be spoken.There&#39;s a pain that few will know.Empty chairs in empty cubiclesEveryone&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/empty-chairs-in-empty-cubicles.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Empty Chairs in Empty Cubicles&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133035,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/tweetizen-trump-2017-03-14-empty-chairs-and-empty-tables.html","url_meta":{"origin":31982,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-03-14 &quot;Empty chairs and empty tables!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Mar-17 8:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, a shame about that CBO report on GOP's health insurance plan, Donald. 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