#workplace-satire

#workplace-satire

The world of "The Chair Company," by contrast, is full of characters who possess their own sparks of Robinsonian madness, their own humiliations and self-defeating obsessions. There is the older colleague who was passed over for Ron's job, played by the veteran "S.N.L." writer Jim Downey: following his non-promotion, he makes it his business to enliven the workplace-first by blowing bubbles with a wand he wears around his neck, then by throwing a party.