Every good story needs a hero so introducing Enviro-Monkey (insert fanfare here).
Enviro-Monkey also known as Heneritta Monkey all around goodie-goodie. She works for a well meaning corporation that tries to do good but their good intentions are normally thwarted by the evil doer Mr. Wastefull. Unbeknowst to Enviro-Monkey, Mr. Wastefull works only 2 cubicles down. Keith, as he is better known as, is messy, wastefull, and just plain mean. Plus he is always picking on the do-gooders in the office, especially poor Heneritta.
Today the well meaning corporation has called a meeting to discuss recycling of office paper. Keith reads the memo and immediatly throws it across the office, hitting Heneritta in the head. While Heneritta unwads the paper she thinks to herself, “finally the boss has listened to my pleas about recycling”.
Heneritta makes her way to the conference room at 10 o’clock and lines up with all the other smiling do-gooders. The meeting begins with the boss passing out 20 pieces of paper to everyone in the groop. Heneritta does the math and realizes that with 50 people in the room that’s over 2 reams of paper going to waste. But she continues to smile knowing that something good must be coming out of all this waste. The meeting drones on, while Keith (Mr. Wastefull) starts shooting spitballs towards the do-gooders.
The boss says some interesting things about the offices paper consumption. Like each day the office goes through 8 reams of paper and that equals about 1/2 of a tree. So in a normal year, working 20 days out of each month, that means we go through 1920 reams of paper and distroy approximatly 115 trees. Heneritta is distraught thinking about all the needless distruction. Meanwhile, Keith speaks up and says “that’s not very many trees why do we need to recycle, isn’t that more expensive, isn’t our motto about saving money and not spending more of it?” The boss gathers his thoughts and says “yes, you bring up a good point, this will cost more money and we also would like to start buying 100% recycled paper to use, which is more expensive then regular paper”. Heneritta giggles with glee so loud that Keith looks at her and grins as he hatches he evil plan. “Where will that extra money come from?”, Keith asks. The boss coughs and sputters for a moment, alowing Keith to make another comment. “So does that mean it is going to come out of our pay?” Everyone gasps and starts to mumble about losing money due to recycling. The boss sputters again. “Well where is the money going to come from?”, asks Keith again. The boss starts to speak, when the crowd gets louder. Heneritta sees that this has gotten out of control, leaves the room and comes back at Enviro-Monkey (insert fanfare here)! Then just a suddenly as Enviro-Monkey appeared so does Mr. Wastefull, the crowd gasps!
What will Mr. Wastefull say to the crowd, what will Enviro-Monkey do to Mr. Wastefull, will the Boss finally speak up?
Tune in next week to see what happens…
