A funny cartoon and photo comic about software, work, and Microsoft Office. http://blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/atom.xmlCommunity Server2009-09-15T10:56:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/archive/2009/11/06/democracy-work-people-decisions.aspx2009-11-06T17:48:00Z2009-11-06T17:48:00Z<P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34332457@N07/4081005486/" mce_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34332457@N07/4081005486/"><IMG style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="Democracy Work People Decisions =" border=0 alt="Democracy Work People Decisions =" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/officeoffline/WindowsLiveWriter/DemocracyWorkPeopleDecisions_89A7/Democracy%20+%20Work%20+%20People%20+%20Decisions%20=_7d4278b0-05fa-49f2-abbb-eb0cd5191e88.gif" width=641 height=252 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/officeoffline/WindowsLiveWriter/DemocracyWorkPeopleDecisions_89A7/Democracy%20+%20Work%20+%20People%20+%20Decisions%20=_7d4278b0-05fa-49f2-abbb-eb0cd5191e88.gif"></A></P> <P>Today’s Office OFFline comic was inspired by the recent elections.</P> <P>After creating this comic, it occurred to me that elections are a lot like business meetings. The people in charge usually have an agenda. Most people never participate. And when it’s over, we spend a ton of time trying to figure out what really happened. </P> <P>Have you noticed other similarities?</P> <P> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" mce_src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></SCRIPT> </P> <P><A href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/archive/2009/11/06/democracy-work-people-decisions.aspx%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><IMG border=0 src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_thumb_blue.gif" target="_blank"></A> </P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9918703" width="1" height="1">David Salaguintohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/David+Salaguinto.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/archive/2009/10/30/people-word.aspx2009-10-30T18:03:00Z2009-10-30T18:03:00ZI've learned a lot about people by working at Microsoft...(<a 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