One day I was sitting in my office, working on a spreadsheet. I heard my name called from another office, and assuming there was a technology issue I was needed for, I hustled over. When I arrived, one of my colleagues was staring at a painting on the wall, and the other asked me to help with an uninvited guest. That’s when I noticed the bug on top of her painting.
We watched the creature walking back and forth on the painting. Smacking it off seemed too risky since we might damage or knock down the painting. So my colleague tried using Lysol to get the bug off. That didn’t work, and honestly, I worried we might have just created a super bug. It retreated to the back of the painting. We decided to take the painting down, I smacked the bug off, then crushed and discarded it.
Someone suggested maybe we keep it alive and relocate it somewhere else for a happy life. I responded by crushing the bug and sending it to another kind of happy life. I wasn’t about to carry a bug around the building since it would probably find its way back with friends. We had to send a clear message to any other bugs that this was not a welcoming place.
You are not welcome here, bug. You are not welcome.
On another note, if you have ever watched the show “The Office” with Steve Carell, that whole scene felt like something straight out of it. It was genuinely comical watching us try to figure out how to handle the situation. I really wish I had filmed it.
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