An empty donut box is only a sin if you don't throw it away.

• Intro: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)
• Poem: i take my glasses off, Lucille Clifton
• Music: CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! (from DreamWorks Animation's "TROLLS"), Justin Timberlake, Villa 40/RCA Records (2016)

You should never reply-all after Labor Day.

• Intro: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)
• Poem: Tin Bucket, Jenny George
• Music: Mr. Brightside, The Killers, Island Records (2004)

No one knows what the stapler is for, but no one is brave enough to throw it away.

• Intro: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)
• Poem: Vertigo, Anne Stevenson
• Music: Let's Stay Together, Al Green, Fat Possum (1972)

Whosoever pulleth this expired take-out from the fridge is likewise ruler of Break Room.

• Intro: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)
• Poem: But I Do Not Need Kindness, Gregory Corso
• Music: Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder, Motown (1973)

Green lights would make great used car salesmen.

• Intro: Small Change, DON WEST, Mandatory Music (2024)
• Poem: Poem, Bill Knott
• Music: Float On, Modest Mouse, Epic (2004)

In this office, we eat the whole donut or we don't eat any donuts!

• Intro: Dreams, The Cranberries, Analog Spark (1996)
• Poem: Bird on the School Path, Dawn Watson
• Music: New Beastly, Vulfpeck, Vulf Records (2025)

If you haven't turned on your blinker before you slow down, don't even bother.

• Intro: Dreams, The Cranberries, Analog Spark (1996)
• Poem: A Man Said to the Universe, Stephen Crane
• Music: Morning Train (Nine to Five), Sheena Easton, RT Industries (1995)

This entire car is a biz-speak-free zone.

• Intro: Dreams, The Cranberries, Analog Spark (1996)
• Poem: Hope, Dave Morrison
• Music: Mirrors, Caravan Palace, Le Plan Recordings (2024)

Dance like no one's watching, work like no one's in the office.

• Intro: Dreams, The Cranberries, Analog Spark (1996)
• Poem: My Crow, Raymond Carver
• Music: A Little Respect, Erasure, Rhino/Warner Records (1988)

The only agenda item for any Friday meeting had better be 'donuts'.

• Intro: A Little Less Conversation - JXL Radio Edit Remix, Elvis Presley;JXL, RCA/Legacy (2022)
• Poem: Fresh, Naomi Shihab Nye
• Music: Alright, Supergrass, Echo (1995)