#Stately: Exclusive Clique to Begin

by Donald Keyjote
October 18, 2006

Joey Stonewall, a technician for the State Administration of Human Services and Health Related Stuff, is the organizer of a new clique, according to gossipers. Stonewall is reportedly seeking exclusive members for his "Filing Fans," for role-playing enthusiasts only.

"They are a lot of people out there who don't do a lot of filing," Stonewall said from a darkened corner in the storage room at the end of the hall. "They are either on the phone all day or have other commitments but there is this desire – wish, almost – to want to get their hands on file folders and put them in numerical order or based on size of contents."

Already five people have asked friends of acquaintances of Stonewall about membership requirements, and as of Thursday two people have been approved. One of the approved members, speaking on anonymity but who asked to be identified by his screen name, “Chillin’ Manila,” said he was glad to get in on this from the ground floor.

"I used to do filing as a temp and have run into plenty of real life File Trolls, File Goblins and File Punks. With Joey's clique, I can act as either a File Bishop or even a sinister File Conjurer and have it all be for fun! It's a win-win deal."

However many of Chillin’ Manila’s co-workers feel opposition to the new clique.

"I don't think it's fair," Sally Quinton said, a co-worker of Chillin’ Manila’s at SAHSHRS. "He already belongs to three cliques: the Lunch-Eater-Outers, the Walkies and the Regulators. I'm only part of Avon. I don't think that's fair."

"We really don't need any more cliques," co-worker Rod Isham said. "The workplace is already saturated with mini-clubs and groups already planning backstabbings for other groups. To bring three or four other people into a clique, however sincere, is just fragmenting people. What's it going to be next: the Self Clique?"

On the most part, co-workers are eager to welcome another clique into the workplace, especially one that has a work-related theme to it.

"Shoot, I liked filing when I did it for real," co-worker Donnie Keiths said. "Now to act out doing it during lunch and after work is too cool for me! I'm there! Pick me, pick me!"