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Wanking in the Office

Big Train
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A manager tries to impose a basic workplace boundary and faces an impassioned revolt from his staff.

Community rating

– / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

With a supervisor due to visit, Roger announces that staff must stop masturbating in the office. His colleagues defend the practice as a source of morale and productivity, treating the restriction as an attack on their freedoms. Peter counters with the practical damage to his paperwork. The manager ends the argument with a firm ban, only to find that another employee has ignored the discussion altogether.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 6

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

How well do we work when we can just wank at will?

It's covert oppression.

It's outrageous.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

A contemporary review compared the argument to debates about banning smoking in offices.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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