Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 12, 2024

Do you have to give 30 minute notice if you decide to vacate?

And the place has already been partitioned into cubicles.

I never figured Mike for a (i)Vulture capitalist.

Panel3: Pivotal and back-lit, as usual. The major characters are talking but not looking at one another. Is it the office lease that they’re talking about or some other, more dramatically significant, contract?

Around that time I was working for a chip company. We expanded and got a few dozen used cubicles from failed dot com companies. We found literature in the drawers from Purple Tie. Anyone remember Purple Tie? They thought everyone would want to manage their dry cleaning online.

We scoffed at them at the time, but in retrospect they were the gig economy decades ahead of their time.

That’s why they don’t all go out to coffee at the same time. The place might be rented to someone else when they get back.

The Three Stooges movie about the WW2 housing shortage—-a guy was renting a room by the hour.

“You can have it from 4 to 5—-A.M.!!”

not this year, this week.