On occasion it's justifiable to spend a late evening in the office or, god help your soul, even come in over the weekend to put the finishing touches on something that won't be remembered in two weeks unless you fail to make sure that it's done. Justifiable to who is entirely a whole separate question when you consider the sheer number of hours already spent and the weigh that against what someone might figure their life by the hour to be worth. Still, when you're stuck working and there are those slow moments in which you start to ponder your domesticated sheep-like existence, it's not uncommon to start to think of slightly destructive if not downright mischievous deeds to perpetrate on your employer to show just how unsheep-like you actually are. What then, goes the next most common thought, would someone like you do that would send your message loud and clear to your superiors while still not getting fired? Thankfully, you read spudWorks, and we happen to have all the answers, and tend to be especially prepared when it is we who pose the questions. Here's the short list:

• Steal all the tape, staples, and paperclips from your boss' office. That'll keep 'em on their toes.
• Replace the pictures of your boss' family with pictures you took of yourself working those after hours evenings with the digital camera you were barely able to afford on the paltry salary they refused to raise last year.
• If in over a weekend, rearrange everyone's seating placement and post a map to their new locations in a central area. Don't move yourself.
• If you feel like you may be spending too much time late, have a Lay-Z- Boy delivered to your cubicle during normal work hours and take the time to set it up in place of your desk chair.
• For those with arts and crafts tendencies and office windows that open, fashion a pair of hands out of paper machai and glue them outside of your boss' windowsill.
• Start taking "comp" days that were never agreed upon and don't bother explaining why you were out. This may get you fired, but at least you got a few paid days off first.

Employment at any company, be it a comic store or corporation is a battle of wits between the employees and the employers. It is constant. Like the tide, but remember and take strength in this, before the sand was sand, it was rocks worn down by the sea. Be the sea.

- The Staff