Freshly arrived boss decides to gauge how well his new 50-person staff responds to change, so he gives each staffer a packet with an excerpt from Who Moved My Cheese?, reports an IT pilot fish on the scene.

“It wasn’t the whole book — just 10 or 12 pages photocopied out of it,” fish says. “We had a day to read the story and think about how to respond. At a staff meeting the next day, we were to discuss the story, who we identified with and why.”

According to the excerpt fish receives, four characters are living in a maze — two mice named Sniff and Scurry, and two “littlepeople” named Hem and Haw. Every day they go to a specific room in the maze and find cheese to eat. One day, they discover the cheese is gone. The mice promptly head out to look for a new source of cheese, while Hem and Haw get upset about the change and wait for the cheese to return. After several days, Hem stays at the cheese room, still waiting, while Haw goes out and eventually finds new cheese.

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