專欄露西

Personal life has invaded the office

There is a new man in the office who sits at a desk just behind mine. Most mornings he’s in early, as am I, and as I leaf through the newspapers, I hear a rustling sound and the ring of metal on china followed by a slurp-munch-slurp noise.

I look around and see that he has pushed his keyboard aside and at his elbow is a box of Fruit ’n Fibre. He is eating his cereal intently, staring at his computer screen. Presently, he gets up, takes the bowl to the sink, washes it and returns to his desk.

I had been monitoring this breakfast ritual for a couple of weeks when I got an e-mail from a reader telling me that at the bank where he works, his colleagues’ desk drawers no longer contain files, but are filled with cereal boxes.

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露西•凱拉韋

露西•凱拉韋(Lucy Kellaway)是英國《金融時報》的管理專欄作家。在過去十年的時間裏,她用幽默的語言調侃各種職場現象,併爲讀者出謀劃策。她的專欄每週一出版在英國《金融時報》。露西在2006年獲得英國出版業獎的「年度專欄作家」獎項。

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