The Everyday Adventures of JimmyDuck: Inaction Figures

Ever have trouble keeping track of your boss's location? We have this problem all of the time. Even though the Hutt practically lives in the offices, we never know whether its taking phone calls or even which office its in. This became enough of a problem that the Hutt came up with a solution: the doll. The doll is like one of those artist's dummies, poseable and made out of wood.

 

Picture something like this

The idea is the doll will take one of three poses: out of the building, in the building but unavailable, in the main office and taking calls. In theory, this is not a horrible idea. In practice it has several fatal flaws:

1. The doll is kept at the main desk, down a flight of stairs from the offices. This means that the Hutt has to come downstairs to change the pose. One would think that you could just tell the people at the desk where you will be, thus rendering the doll redundant.

2. No one remembers what the poses mean. There is no guide anywhere. Additionally, those three poses don't cover all the possibilities for the Hutt's location and availability.

3. The Hutt rarely actually changes the doll. Seriously, it was in the "out of the building" pose for three weeks straight. More recently, our coworkers have taken to contorting the doll into freakish poses. No one notices.

And most importantly:

4. The doll makes us feel like preschoolers. We are all college educated adults. We understand words like "I'll be out of the office until 4". The doll makes us think you consider us all idiots.

Yeah, you might be out of the office but my brain is still here.