Seven Workplace Signs the Economy Is Picking Up

1.) The firm doesn't bother to renew its disgruntled-employee massacre insurance policy.

2.) The puddle on the floor in the men's room is stocked with trout.

3.) Pictures of flowerboxes and sleeping cats have been painted over the boarded-up office windows to make the place seem "cheerier."

4.) Employees stop burning debris in their cubicles for warmth.

5.) The company picnic is held at a park instead of in the back of an old van.

6.) The office supply closet contains more than an empty fifth of Thunderbird and a tattered copy of Swank.

7.) The HR department begins handing out oranges to alleviate the office scurvy epidemic.