Lights up. We see several office cubicles under a banner which reads: "Psi Company - Excellence Is Quality One". An easel on stage left has a large card reading "Monday morning". Kent is at his desk. Skip enters and walks past Kent to get to his desk.

Tom approaches Kent's cubicle. Kent announces Tom's approach like a sportscaster introducing the home team players.

Jerry prairie dogs (sticks his head up from behind the cubicle wall).

Marion and Emma enter opposite and go to their desks. Emma sets out some divinity for people to serve themselves.

Marion gets a plate of divinity and eats. Others follow her lead.

Tom exits. People try to look busy as Cole escorts Candy into the sea of cubicles. He uses grand gestures as he tells her about the great work she'll be doing. Note: Cole's speech to Candy must be exaggerated so that the audience will recognize it again in the play's final scene.

Marion indicates her co-workers.

Skip sees that Cole is glaring at him.

Cole ushers Candy offstage. The others sit at their desks.

Jerry pops up.

Lights dim. Workers cross and interact to indicate the passage of time. All of the named characters exit stage right.

Lights up. Same setting after the one o'clock staff meeting. An attractive woman showing a lot of leg replaces the card on the easel with "Monday afternoon" and exits. Tom and Marion walk toward Marion's desk. Skip and Kent follow and go to their desks. Jerry goes to his desk behind the cubicle wall.

Tom demonstrates by tilting his head back like a baby bird feeding or someone sleeping sitting up. Emma enters as Marion says...

Emma curtsies like a little girl after her piano recital and then sits at her desk. Jerry pops up.

Anna, apparently wearing really strong perfume, walks across stage. Marion aims a hand-held electric fan at Anna as she passes. Skip dons a gas mask from his desk. People cough as she walks by. Emma's eyes water. Tom stumbles away.
Note: Anna can be played by the easel card girl. She can do a quick costume change to business attire: wrap-around skirt, blazer, scarf, etc.

Jerry exits.

Skip notices a book on Kent's desk. He thumbs through it.

Tom walks by carrying a 5-gallon bottle of Sparklett's water.

Lights dim. Workers cross and interact to indicate the passage of time. Jerry drops a document in Marion's in-basket and returns to his desk. Emma, Kent, and Skip end up at their desks. All others are off stage.

Lights up. Same setting. The easel card girl replaces the card on the easel with "Wednesday morning" and exits. Skip, Kent, and Emma are sitting at their desks. Kent sighs heavily. Skip sighs.

Kent waits impatiently. Tom enters with a carton of colored eggs.

Tom hands an egg to each person.

Tom exits. Marion and Emma enter opposite.

Marion is pleased to find a document in her in-basket.

Kent and Skip read their e-mail.

Skip forwards the message.

Kent walks purposefully to Cole's office (offstage). Tom enters.

Jerry sticks his head up from behind the cubicle wall.

Kent strides back to his desk and starts looking through his address book. Marion goes to his desk.

Cole walks to Kent's desk. He is not completely controlling his anger. Tom scurries away. Jerry ducks below the cubicle wall. Marion looks at a paper on Skip's desk.

Confused, Cole wanders slowly off.

Jerry and Marion return their attention to Kent, but duck when Cole stomps back to Kent's desk.

Cole exits. Slowly Jerry and Marion return their attention to Kent. After a moment in silence, Skip says...

Lights dim. Workers cross and interact to indicate the passage of time. All of the named characters exit: Skip to stage left, the others to stage right.

Lights up. Same setting. The easel card girl replaces the card on the easel with "Wednesday afternoon" and exits. People are returning to their desks after a short meeting. Skip enters from the opposite direction.

Candy enters. Marion stands at her computer, clicks the mouse, and points out something on the screen to Candy.

Emma joins Candy and Marion as they cluster around Marion's computer screen.

Emma and the other women stare at the screen in rapt attention for a minute afterwards.

Skip raises his eyebrows in a lewd way.

Kent exits. Emma sits at her desk. She sneezes and/or coughs.

Kent returns to his desk. Cole walks to Skip's desk.

Jerry pops up.

Lights dim. Workers cross and interact to indicate the passage of time. All of the named characters exit stage right.

Lights up. Same setting. The easel card girl replaces the card on the easel with "Friday midmorning" and exits. People are returning to their desks after a meeting. They seem to be depressed.

Emma gets a memo pad and prepares to take notes. Kent sits and uses his computer.

Skip starts dialing on his phone.

Lights dim. Workers alter their desks slightly to indicate a new setting that looks almost exactly like the old Psi Company office. The "Psi Company" banner is replaced with "Omega Corp." All characters exit stage right.

Lights up. We see several office cubicles under a banner which reads: "Omega Corporation - One Quality Is Excellence". The easel card girl replaces the card on the easel with "Two weeks later" and exits. New Boss escorts Kent to what looks like Kent's old desk. She uses grand gestures as she tells Kent about the great work he'll be doing.

Blackout. End of play.