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How To Identify An Office Sycophant

David Volk
3 min readAug 20, 2020

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They Don’t Always Have Brown Noses

They Prefer The Name Yes-Person.

Thanks to equality in the work place, there aren’t just yes-men, there are also yes-women, yes-trans, yes-nonbinary. So, yeah, they ask that you respect their differences.

Brown Spots On Nose.

We have no idea if this animal actually had a brown nose, sometimes we post something because we just like the photo. Photo by Amauri Acosta Montiel on Unsplash

So, okay, yeah. There is that. We’re just saying some of them do and others remember to…shall we say…use a tissue after they’ve kissed…um…you get the picture.

Their Breath Smells Of Shoe Polish

It’s too bad they don’t make toothpaste with shoe polish in it so it would freshen their breath along the way. Photo by Jordan Whitfield on Unsplash

We’ll just leave this picture here and let you figure it out on your own.

The Footprints On The Back Of Their Shirt.

They make them look like a welcome mat with sleeves…especially when they wear green shirts made out of that bright fabric that kind of looks like AstroTurf.

They Loudly Insist They Aren’t Someone’s Puppet (“No Puppet! No Puppet!”).

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David Volk
David Volk

Written by David Volk

I’m a Seattle-based freelancer and humorist who loves goofy humor, politics and pot stirring, if you know what I mean.

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