It was 9am on a Tuesday when John, the team lead, stormed into the meeting room with a
crisis in his hands. "Who brought the salad?" he bellowed, his face red with rage.
The room fell silent as all eyes turned to Sarah, who was quietly eating her own lunch in the corner.
Her defense was that she had brought the salad, but only as a "thought experiment."
The team was unconvinced.
As the debate raged on, the salad sat untouched on the conference table, a symbol of the
deep-seated conflicts that plagued the team.
In the end, the salad was deemed a "shared responsibility," but not before
round two of the debate.