Mitch Albom: 'Office' is now the code word for our low morale [View All]

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from the Detroit Free Press:




In a recent episode of TV's "The Office," the boss, played by Steve Carell, asks one of his staff to marry him. The proposal is gleefully orchestrated by the office workers. They hold candles and play along on the romance. They even cheer as the bride-to-be says yes.

And then Carell announces, at this happiest moment, that he is moving to Colorado to help his beloved with her ailing father.

And the office is stunned.

There is very little resembling a real office in that story -- and not just because the actors are funnier than us. These days, offices have become places of resentment, not camaraderie, of dissatisfaction, grumbling, muted anger. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20110403/COL01/104030493/Mitch-Albom-Office-is-now-the-code-word-for-our-low-morale?odyssey=mod