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More balls per capita

Than any other place on earth.  Except maybe a sporting goods store.  We are not discussing the new discovery of some complicated chemical formula or a cojones extravaganza or even a birth defect. Maybe it is after all the latter.

I want to review the transformation of the American workplace.

What?

Ya.

How you ask?

Aside from the ball-scratching cooks in the vicinity of a kitchen that Tony Bourdain might elaborate on I believe that the new age employee seems to be ever so fascinated by ball play.

So much that it has become de rigueur (I had to look up this goofy French phrase that has been bandied around by the Anglo populace) to include a variety of indoor sports equipment in the workplace.

Billiard and pool tables to pong (and ping), golf balls with a rug and sticks and a whole host of ball based activities are now commonplace in the work hallways of Silicon Alley.  Larger dimension balls such as the foot (long along the axis) ball are also thrown around for occasional fun much to the chagrin of some that worry about their coconut intersecting paths with the flying object.

Add some alcohol and the frivolities can begin.  Of course making work look like play is always a good thing but it does not have to be ostentatious.  It is the spirit of the thing that matters not so much the spheres or any other deity based worship.

When Silicon Valley hosts 'bring your kids to work day' to give first world children a glimpse of what child labor looks like (in the first world) I often wonder if it is redundant.  After all the child views all that in its day care is it not?  Except the folks engaging in the activity are shorter than four feet.

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