Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for November 11, 1991

You need some office toys, Darryl. I read a column by business guru Tom Peters where he said he couldn’t imagine an office without office toys. They stimulate creative thinking and relieve boredom that stifles such thinking.

There’s an anecdote about an executive showing an exec from another company around the office. The second exec noticed a man sitting in his cubicle playing with some sort of office toy.

“Look at that guy!” he said. “He’s just sitting there playing. Why don’t you fire him?”

The first executive smiled and said, “The last time he sat there like that he came up with an idea that saved the company $10,000,000 a year.”