No Fun Allowed

HFN / Home Furnishings News Magazine just ran a cover article titled “If You’re Not Having Fun Anymore, You’re Not Alone.” It cites a number of factors, like the consolidation of more and more power to fewer and fewer retailers, and the buyers at those retailers playing it safe rather than offering fresh, innovative product. The article said everybody is running faster just to stay in place, and the joy, excitement and fun is gone from business. In other words, business today has a bad case of the Mondays. 

Oops – missed the memo. Geez, don’t want to be left behind in the latest corporate trend. Guess it’s time to get a company email message out: No more fun allowed. No more being creative, joking, ribbing, teasing, singing, silly email videos, wacky brainstorming, cool designing, uncontrolled laughing, or other spontaneous and/or wild zaniness.

On the other hand…we’ve always liked the contrarian role. Maybe we’ll just hang in the fun camp, as much as we possibly can. (Better to light a candle than complain about the dark.)