It’s the mid-1990s, and this company’s graphic designers are finally moving from a tiny closet-sized space to a decent office, says a pilot fish on the scene.

“We were planning on ditching our old, clunky, typewriter-era desks and getting some that could accommodate our computers without having holes drilled in them for the wiring,” fish says.

“Unfortunately, any desk decisions had to get the stamp of approval from the Interior Design office — and those people were still stuck firmly in the age of the typewriter.

“We found a loophole, though: Any furniture with wheels on it was officially classified as a ‘cart,’ not a desk. And we could get as many ‘carts’ as we wanted without having to get a signoff from Interior Design.

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