Team Building

The Insufferable Inderjit piped up in the team building meeting:

“Individually, we are like fingers on a hand”,

holding his hand up with fingers outstretched,

“We have some use but are weak."

Then he balled his hand up:

“But if we unite, we are capable of great and powerful things”,

and proudly held up a fist.

That smartass Siddharth had to say:

“A slap's pretty powerful too."

The Insufferable Inderjit couldn't leave this challenge unmolested:

“Okay, you slap me as hard as you can, and then I'll punch you as hard as I can, and we'll see the power of teamwork.”,

as if them beating each other up in the meeting room proved anything about teamwork.

Siddharth was a skinny guy, so he put all his effort into a slap that they later said they heard down in the pantry. Inderjit collapsed, and the idiot never got up again. The slap had struck some sensitive nerve or blood vessel at an unfortunate angle, killing him instantly. Siddharth's still doing time in Parappanna Agrahara for involuntary manslaughter...

We got rid of an Insufferable Idiot and a Smartass in one team building meeting.

Metaphors were banned in office for a while though.