Posted by Evan Berlin

As Elissa reminded us a couple weeks back, humor is a huge part of success in startups, small businesses, or any business for that matter. Recently, I locked myself in a room for a few minutes with a few co-workers to come up with a funny-because-it’s-true list for small business owners and their employees. Enjoy!

You know you work for a small business if:

1. Your company has grown so rapidly, the CEO decided to share his/her office to make room for new employees.
2. Your company screen prints its own softball jerseys…and you are not a screen printing company.
3. It’s announced that your company is moving to a new office, and after pricing several moving companies, it’s decided that the Sales Team is the most cost-efficient option.
4. You spend so much time at the office, half your wardrobe is stuffed under your desk.
5. Your IT department is in charge of fixing the coffee machine…and the toaster…and assembling chairs.
6. Inter-office romances would just be…awkward.
7. When free Friday lunch is ordered from a local pizza bistro, and not Papa John’s, the office goes wild.
8. Your company is referred to as “hippy-ish” in the Wall Street Journal.
9. Every employee in the company qualified for the economic stimulus check.
10. Someone in your office inevitably blasts Michael McDonald’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” at 8:30 in the morning.
11. The electrical room has morphed into a supply closet, a kitchen, and then the IT guy’s office.

Have any of your own office quirks? Feel free to share!

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