I work at home. This is my office:
Except that picture is inaccurate, because you can’t see any of the other employees. Ah, here we go:
That’s Nito. He works here too. He is a cat.
Some people think that working with a cat is all kneady paws and rumbly purrs. But to be honest with you, we have had our share of personnel issues around here.
First of all, I’m lucky if I can get him to come into work at all. He frequently calls in sick, as if we do not live in our office and I can’t see him over there, enjoying a relaxing afternoon nap and sporting what appears to be a suspiciously fresh pedicure.
Even if I do manage to get him to show up for work, he is usually so bored that he can’t even feign interest in the project at hand.
But then the next minute, he has hurt feelings because he feels left out of the creative process. Meanwhile, I’m all, “Dude, we HAD a meeting about this. We took a VOTE. You ABSTAINED.”
Cats. What can you do.
Worse, his management style can be decidedly … authoritarian. I mean, I’m working as fast as I can, dude. Back off.
Of course, true to form, you’ll catch him sleeping on the job not five minutes later.
Hypocrite.
Even when he’s awake, it’s pretty obvious that he isn’t listening to a word I say.
Nito? Did you get a chance to come up with any feedback on that proposal I put in your inbox? Nito?
Even when he is willing to contribute, he spends a suspicious amount of time “meditating for inspiration.”
Mmm. hmmm.
But honestly, I don’t mind, even if every time he crawls into my lap purring about us “collaborating on this manuscript,” I wind up doing most of the work.
I’m not sure why I put up with it, exactly. I think it’s probably because he just happens to be cute enough to do wonders for office morale.
Plus … just between you and me … in my opinion, his salary amounts to mere kibble. Sucker.
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Oh my god. My kitty lust is soaring. He’s a giant baby, and the best cats in the world are giant babies! (Before I get accused of fallacious reasoning, *it is also true* that Nito is one of the best cats in the world. Clearly.)
As someone else who only has cats (yes, two) as coworkers, this was great. I’ve been wanting to try those Soft Paws for them, are they working for you?
I LOVED THIS!! so cute
Your coworker is awesome. Also, I imagine he’s not a mouth-breather like my old cubemate, which scores him even higher on the cute ladder.
Bethany,
I like the SoftPaws, but he generally only wears them when he’s going to Grandma’s house (when I’m going out of town for a week). They have a long-term disadvantage in that they fall off eventually, and by then there is a RAZOR CLAW underneath. So you have to catch it right away, or he might do more damage to your furniture than he would have if you just trimmed his claws regularly.
I also don’t find that there’s a good system to glue just ONE back on. They need blister packs of glue or something. I don’t want to cut the top off a whole plastic glue bottle just to glue one cap back on. Because once you’ve done that, the bottle is usually kind of gunked up and useless later.
They do work, and they do stay on if you apply them right. It’s the maintenance that I find too annoying to bother with unless my cat is about to destroy someone ELSE’S stuff.
OMG i might have to get a cat. That is SO cute!!
soooo….do you think you would mind sharing with the audience where you purchased the three panels of tree art?
Kristin: The tree panels are actually wallpaper glued onto custom-made canvases from frenchcanvas.com. The canvases were cheap for such large wall art–about $160 for all three–but the wallpaper was expensive as shit:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/good-questions/good-questions-what-is-this-wallpaper-015132
I got it at Rose and Radish (now defunct, I believe, but Cole and Son is still making wallpaper? I think?), originally for another wall–one in my old house that I was sad to leave behind. It was so expensive that once I was divorced and broke, I was determined to use the remnants for something that I could take with me next time!
He sounds like a real jackass. : )
Thanks for the info — that’s basically why I was leery of SoftPaws, they just seemed to be more trouble than they’re worth for an everyday thing.
Also, your apartment is awesomely furnished.
I wish I worked in your office.
OK that meditation thing CRACKED ME UP!
Awwwh, Nito! The only cat I will ever admit to liking.
That cat is amazing. What a handsome guy!
BEST. POST. EVAR.
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