Your poor, poor office mate.

I don't know what you're talking about, Mike.

You must crush the wheels of industry and the might of your keys. Take them down.

These are the rules that you have to win.

I only realized after the video went up and a lot of people were

leaving a bunch of comments about my office mate who must have been overhearing me do this script over and over again.

I only realize once reading those the true strangeness of his perspective because he rented the office next to mine at some point

in the summer when I was away and though I never see him because I don't have to walk past his office he

does see my office and so he would have walked past this empty room with two desks stacked on top of each other and no chair and nothing inside of it.

And thought, huh, I wonder, I wonder what's going on in the office next door.

I wonder why this storage closet is unattended.

Right, exactly.

Because why would there be two tables on top of each other?

They were just storing them.

Perfectly reasonable assumption.

And then, at some point from his perspective, the neighbor just shows up and is walking

through this half-written script on the rules of power constantly at odd hours.

He never would have heard me talking about anything other than this single topic.

And he would have heard me talking just this morning, doing it again with the follow-up videos.

But so this is, you know, whatever it is, from the start of September until now,

this is all he has heard from me next door.

After being in the office on his own for a while,

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