Diary of an Office Idiot - A Lesson in Awesomeness

by Joe Hill

Around the office, Jones enjoyed a certain celebrity due to his consistent ability to get into trouble with management, make a fool of himself, and just generally pee off the top brass. Jones was the official office jester and yet, there was a kind of genius, a kind of Don Quixotic idiocy about him that most of the staff found endearing. It was as if Jones was on a perpetual mission to self-destruct. And everyone loved watching because, usually, it was damned entertaining.
So, when Jones was on the verge of making an ass of himself – yet again – his fellow workers tended to stop and pause, waiting expectantly for the inevitable nuclear fallout to follow.
And today would be no exception.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 29, 2013