Stop Six - Chris' Office

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Next stop may be not as exciting as the rest, but it was still something we wanted to see. We didn't have time to see Chris' office the last time we were out there, but we had seen pictures of toy-line shelves and video games stacked up all over, so I really wanted to see it. For those of you who don't know, Chris is Editor in Chief of Tips & Tricks magazine. This puts him in the enviable position of having his hobby be his job. That's sort of the case with me, but the stuff I play with at home (like this web site) doesn't have a lot to do with what I do at work. He gets to play video games at work!

We walk into the office, and the first thing we see is the guy at the reception desk is playing a video game. Out of the corner of my mount I say "Hmm, playing video games on company time." He answers "Yeah, don't tell my boss!"

Chris walks us around the office, and we meed some of his staff. Everyone seems to be happy to meet us, and it really looks like a fun place to work, with all the video game paraphernalia everywhere. We walk up to Chris' door, and there are a bunch of clippings on the door. (Sorry they're not really readable on the picture I took.)

Chris tells us that took all the misspellings, bad grammar, misinformation, and just plain bad writing from his competitor's magazines and pased them up there. I don't know if it's a motivational tool or if he's just gloating, but I thought it was pretty cool.

As was his office. It was more functional and less "play" than I thought it was going to be, probably because of all the stuff he has jammed in there. Years ago, he appointed himself the company historian, when he stopped them from throwing away piles of back issues and other reference material. From the looks of the office, he's got a lot of it stored in there.

One thing we did miss on the tour was the statue in front of the building. Chris said that there was a big statue of John Wayne in front, and that he's always seeing people climbing over the fence around it to get a better look or a picture, and the security guards are always chasing them away. He told us about it as we were approaching the building, but I didn't get a good look as we drove by. We went in the back, parked underground, then went out the back, and by that time we had completely forgotten about the statue, because we were looking forward to our next stop.

On to the Next Stop