I recently replied to a post on Linkedin. For some reason, they felt that the best way to increase traffic to their website was to run a series of articles of people and their incredible offices/cubicles.
Well, mine is not incredible. To be honest, it is amazingly bland. Is very much empty. It’s not even mine, is an asset of the company I work for. And it’s gray. Beige and gray. But mostly gray.
And that last statement was the one that got me thinking. Why the prejudice against gray? Yes, it is not as fiery as red, nor as soothing as blue. But it is a color. A very common color. My cubicle, my IP phone on my desk. The case of my laptop. My binders. They are all gray. And in a sense, so am I.
You see, there are people out there flaunting their colors. It seems that in some self-gratifying way, they need to always remind the world how “red” or “blue” or “teal” or “metallic bronze” they are. And that’s OK, I guess.
But, I’m gray. At 6:00 AM, when is gray outside, I’m already on my way to my gray cubicle. Every call I get on my gray IP phone gets answered, and the person calling me gets the best help I can give them. My poor gray laptop hates me for all the dings, scratches, bumps and nicks I give it while attending 6-7 meetings a day, and I still find the time to send minutes and update documentation within 24 hrs. I know it’s time to go home when it gets gray outside. Then I work 3 more hours before leaving.
I guess gray is a very reliable color. Not bombastic. Not Kardashian-like. But we do our job. We do a freakin’ good job. Hell, without gray, maybe CEO’s and VP’s and Venture Capitalists would have to answer customer calls, update project plans, use Excel, Visio or, God forbids, MS Project.
Not everything is black or white? That is correct. There is also gray. And we like it that way.
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