My department got called into the office last week. I assume it was for mandatory serendipitous communication. I did my best and struck up a conversation in our

My department got called into the office last week. I assume it was for mandatory serendipitous communication. I did my best and struck up a conversation in our open plan office. I was shushed because half of the department was on the same zoom call and there wasn’t a meeting room big enough for them. I still remember the office I was assigned as a graduate student. It was far nicer than any I had in private industry. It had a window with a view of the campus and I could actually lock the door. The worst office experience I ever had was when I was rubbing elbows with my teammates and wearing noise canceling headphones the entire time. To get away from that gerbil in a cage claustrophobia, I took to walks in the parking garage which was the most humane space in the entire building.