are my fellow cubesters imaginary?

perhaps.

(delayed post - nearly 3 months ago
.. and there is no real "ending" or "pay-off" to this post - just saying)*

according to my work's how i spend most of my days (in cubeopolis) space policy ... d'oh. i mean ... shhhh ... hmmm, i mean, according to ...? let's simply call it math. according to math ...

two people ... are moving on (tear) - however, let it be noted that neither is departing via a cubectomy - each is just moving on to different cubepolitans ... one floor up and another several floors down. [update: they have already moved on]

the outcome ...? (aside from two vacancies for new worker-bees in cubeopolis) there will be two vacant cubes. these cubes are WINDOW cubes. TWO WINDOW CUBES! let. me. say. this. again ... TWO (!!!) often - coveted - in - cubeopolis WINDOW cubes!

musical cubes (aka musical cubicals) ... is in the line of sight. turns out, depending on one's time-served at cubeopolis - the more years, the closer one is to the front of the line to select and relocate to another cube. in other words, math says that the more time one has spent in cubeopolis (aka "time-served"), the closer one is to the front of the line for deciding which cube one wants. math says ...

• most time spent = head of the line
• least time spent = somewhere behind the end of the line

my number in line? ... it's been approximately 9 months (minus 5 days of leave-without-pay for vacation). but WAIT! this is actually my second stint in cubeopolis, albeit on a different lat/long. my first stint was for approximately 18 months nearly 20 years ago. for math's sake, let's call me: could-have-window-first [update: my 1-yr anniversary in cubeopolis is now just around the corner]

according to cubeopolis's math, two interns my fellow cubesters are zeroes EVEN THOUGH they work their asses off. and frankly, given that these interns cubesters are members of the cubeopolis society, "zeroes my ass!" i say. (loyalty at work, here!)

relevant statistics for two interns two cubesters is 23 months and 22 months. for math's sake, let's speak of them as: 23i and 22i.

estimating the ever-so-critical time-served (aka ...let's follow what math says about calculating time-served) ... what does math say about each cubesters' existence?

• could-have-window-first = ~ (9 + 18) = 27 months
  
• 23i = 0 months
  
• 22i = 0 months
  

that is what math says. my fellow cubesters do not have a place in line. math tells me, figuratively speaking, that the two interns my fellow cubesters (whom i've spent quite a bit of time with - at least ~ 8 hrs a day, if y'know what i mean) are actually, well ... they are kind of imaginary, like an imaginary unit, sorta kinda, i guess. i wouldn't say they are "zeroes", y'know?

in short, they are not imaginary.

*(o.k. - that's all i got, 'cuz the rest of writing this post has escaped me.
simply put, i don't agree with cubeopolis's math, and
although i had the option to move to a window cube,
i chose not to exercise that option, out of principle.
i've lent money to 22i and 23i has pardoned my utot**,
so i KNOW 23i and 22i exists in cubeopolis 'cuz they know i exist.)

**(update: sacto floyd has commented - "i stink, therefore i am."
as a result, it has come to my attention that just a few of the 7 of you
may know what utot means. so what are you waiting for?
when you don't know a word - google or urbandictionary it.
so here, here and here works for me. have we not yet trained you?
oops. pardon me.)