In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been fascinated by an idea that sort of tumbled into my head fully-formed. For those of you who are creative types, you understand that this is something about as rare as catching a unicorn with your bare hands and convincing it to make you a sandwich afterwards.

OK, to say that the ideas has fascinated me is putting it a bit lightly. It’s more accurate to say that it has consumed me almost completely. In fact, when the idea hit me, it was so put together that I swore I must have been Incepted. Fortunately, I haven’t spotted Leo or fake Ra’s al Ghul hanging around me.

While I’m not ready to go into it just yet, I will say that it’s a story that blends absurd fantasy with the most mundane setting on the planet — the corporate office. I’m in the process of trying out a new means of outlining and pre-writing this novel at the moment, but I thought I’d take a little survey to give me some guidance.

For those of you that have experience in the corporate world, could you share some of the biggest cliches or headaches that you deal with? I’ve already got most of the corporate tropes that I’m building the story around, but I wanted to see if the things I’m focusing on are the same ones that other people actually deal with. These cliches can be anything from annoying buzzwords used by soothsayer vice presidents to the types of co-workers that you generally deal with in a given department (Steals Everyone’s Lunch Guy comes to mind).

So, what say you guys? Feel free to share.