Seven human bobbleheads fidgeting around a conference table. Our notepads are out, our pens are poised, but our eyes are blank. The cumulus cloud of apathy has formed above our heads and is raining down a waste of time upon us; an absolute downpour.
'We've got to learn from our mistakes and move on," says the chief bobblehead.
But he can't actually describe what the mistakes were, nor can he elucidate the lessons learned from them. It's just the sort of thing you're supposed to say in these sorts of situations.
Banality of banalities, all is banality around the conference table.
The truth is: we are faced with younger competitors who can do work faster and cheaper than we can. I doubt they sit around a conference table with notepads, for instance. They probably Skype each other from fancy New York City coffee shops.
Our mistakes were getting old and losing touch, and the lesson learned is that we should have saved enough money to retire to the Bahamas already, where we could sit and be apathetic bobbleheads in the sun without a care in the world.
