Monday, January 8th 2007 - [770]Some Day (7 of 18)
Brisbane
Mail
Screening
Just WHAT was in that letter?!

Original Commentary

I was considering having him be mobbed by anonymous co-workers asking him to fix something on the second floor, because everyone thinks he's in charge of it. Didn't work. I spend about fifteen minutes trying to find another way of destroying paper (besides "scribbling over it in black marker", which really doesn't flow right) before settling on "shredded again". Sometimes the simplest answers are the best. I was going to have Brisbane mention "She can run Lemon Technology, a medium-sized company, but she can't brew her own coffee", but that'd just be a little much. That and Ms. Taylor can brew her own coffee. She just chooses not to - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I like the rhythm of "shredded, burned and shredded again". I maybe should have stopped there.

The third panel shows that Brisbane is filtering information to and from Ms Taylor - which is part of any admin assistant's job; you need to keep executives focused on the right problems instead of dealing personally with everything. But Ms Taylor doesn't know that Brisbane is doing this, which is going to become a major issue- Terrence

 
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