I don’t talk about work very often at all because, frankly, it’s really not all that interesting. I work in finance and really most days are simply boring. Paperwork in, paperwork out. Staring at my computer {blankly} trying to solve problems. Really, I think I would lose any readership I have or could potentially have in the future if I even thought of writing about work days. That is unless you thrive on the paper processing, fighting with copy machines and talking to endless customer service agents that make you want to rip your hair out.

So yeah. Bo-oh-ring.

But not last week Wednesday. It was like a scene from ”The Office.” My boss likes doughnut holes. Yeah, you read that right… doughnut holes. So he and the coworker with the birthday this week decided to do an economic “experiment” loosely surrounding the theory of the “Law of Diminishing Returns.” The hypothesis was that as we ate the doughnut holes we would become less satisfied with them.

These are said doughnut holes early in the day… and by early I mean when I got there. At this point, a 1/2 container had already been consumed. Yes, you do see that there are 7 boxes of these lovely creations in our break room.

We ate them… and ate them… and ate them… ALL.DAY.LONG. Seriously. The law of diminishing returns DOES work in full effect with doughnut holes very much. We had more than 1/2 of them on Wednesday, and we were SO sick of them. It was horrible. But then the leftovers were there on Thursday.

So what were we to do… we had more doughnut holes on Thursday. Which I must add… were gross. I don’t want to see another doughnut hole for a VERY LONG TIME. It hurts to see them in the store. It feels painful to think about the number of them that I actually ate (even though my coworkers totally out ate me on this one… rightfully so!)

In the end my boss stated that if we were to do this experiment properly, we had to have a set timeline to eat a certain number and rank them on how satisfactory they were.

I’ll tell you now. I won’t be participating in this type of “experiment” anytime soon.




Yuck.





(Just for full disclosure here… if any script writers from ”The Office” or any other show related around office work are reading this… keep in mind that this was OUR idea and catastrophe - contact me before incorporating this idea into any of your scripts! Just sayin’… credit should be due.)