| Here's your excuse to buy a beautiful candy dish  In the office candy is the currency of social exchange, and the candy dish is a toll booth for the socially deprived. For menacing extroverts like me, having a desk-side candy dish, piled high with tempting, brightly-wrapped gems, functions like an anglerfish's glowing lure. You want a Mike and Ike? Go ahead, but it'll cost you, at the very least, five seconds of courteous acknowledgement. If the dish ensnares a fellow extrovert, it can lead to several minutes of time-thieving conversation. At my old job I'd engage in candy dish talk with one colleague so regularly that her cubical neighbor once tweeted, "Chatty coworkers make me want to kill." Lol!
We'll be returning to the office in February. While many are understandably reluctant about the idea of resuming office life after two years of figuring-it-out-as-we-go remote working, I'm plotting how I'll coax passersby with little morsels of dopamine. Of course, the candy contained in said candy dish will be individually wrapped for public health reasons, but the promises of idle chitchat will be all the same.
And even if you're working remotely or staying holed up for the foreseeable future, a candy dish has a place at home as well. Valentine's Day is a nice excuse to keep some candy around and to buy a candy dish to keep it in. And in the dull days of winter, brightening your at-home desk space with a sugary offering could be just the thing to beat the blues. Maybe you'll be the only one eating it for now, but the promise of future candy-instigated chatter, whether it's in the office or an at-home dinner party, just might carry you through February. Find a few favorites below.
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Friday, February 11, 2022
Here’s your excuse to buy a beautiful candy dish
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