(image taken from answers.com, released into public domain)Today, I was walking through the cubicles at work, as I do every morning on my way to the kitchen to get my horrible for me Diet Coke with the brain killing Aspartame and something hit me, and it wasn’t the filing cabinet drawer that people continually leave open. It was the name plate on the outside of the cubicles. They say:
Finance > Accounts Payable > John Smith
Or
Finance > Accounting > Mary Smith
And go on and on like that, Finance > Sub group > Name
Then my brain flashed, as it sometimes does, to a point in my life when I’ve seen something similar.
The zoo.
Rodentia > Abrocomidae > Chinchilla
Primates > Lemuridae > Lemurs
Primates > Hominids > Human
I had to stop walking while this sunk in. It’s a zoo, a human zoo. Order: Finance, Family: Financial Planning, Class: Victorya.
We push levers for rewards, given toys to ‘stimulate us,’ and live in our little cages in specific areas of the zoo.
So, what’s your order and family?
