I am sharing the work of my good friend and poet  Matthew Mercer.   He wrote the following business Haiku.  They made me smile so I figured I would share.   If you find you enjoy this and would like to read others check out MG Siegler’s tech haiku page.  I will post more of Matthew’s work later this week.

The meetings every
Tuesday morning kept us all
plodding through the week

I kept my tie tight
to remain conscious of my
otherwise strained breath

Listening to birds
shirping in the morning was
waking in the board room

When we discuss why
the red tape was still sticky
we realized nothing

Paperwork over
our heads buried us without
just compensation

Early arrivals
each tweet on their own branches
around the table

Meetings give us all
another thirty minutes when
we all do nothing

My co-worker took
off his ring and seemed to think
about his life now

With handouts, you too
will be able to waste more
time and paper too!

Words like asterisk
and ombudsman trouble the
tongue in board meetings

Doctors would like to
believe medicine is what
keeps us together

Board meeting haiku
are written in black ink so
they are official

Shredding discussed at
board meetings have nothing to
do with rock guitars

Meetings sometimes make
me think I have no idea
what is going on

The one response to
the handout about teamwork
was the rolling eyes

The talk about the
Sunshine Club that morning was
the gloomiest thing

The rigidity
of scheduled lunch hours is of
direst importance

The forms you fill out
are there for your protection
and your benefit

“When we let people
bend these arbitrary rules
we’re NOT helping them!”

We introduced Joy
at the meeting this morning.
He seemed REAL happy.

“Well, that will be fine.
We need to let Joy have a
real chance to go first.”

Existentialist
I am when automatic
flushers don’t see me.

These were reprinted with permission of the author.