When Rollie sits in the wrong spot in the conference room, the lights hurt his eyes.

There's a row of track lights on the ceiling, and the lights point in different directions.

The ceiling is fairly low, and there are spots in the room where the light points nearly right at his chair.

In fact, most of the chairs in the room have a light shining at them.

He knows the lights don't bother people nearly as much. But for him, it's terrible.

Once he discovered the problem, he went back to the conference room one day, turned on the lights, and studied where the lights shined, looking for spots where he could sit and not feel like he was blinded.

He was in there for like ten minutes before Becky, the VP's assistant, told him he couldn't be in there.

They've had run ins before.

She got mad after Rollie took the a hat tree from Leo's office after Leo died.

Becky said the hat trees belonged the company and Rollie couldn't just take what he wanted.


The meeting started and Rollie had an OK place to sit.

But then he had to move, and the only chair available was maybe the worst one in the room.

Rollie thought about his tropical fish at home. Bright yellow cichlids. They were bred in captivity.

People think cichlids are agressive, but that's only when their environment is not set up well. Cichlids are territorial.

It's not about population density. They can be happy and peaceful in large numbers as long as each fish has something like a hole or a tube each one can swim inside of and look out.