Piracy The Original Hostile Takeover ~ Ornament

Mergers, Acquisitions, Cannon Fire

Somewhere in a glass-walled boardroom a man in a quarter-zip is explaining synergy. Three hundred years earlier the same conversation took four minutes and no slide deck. For the colleague who has survived one too many strategy offsites and quietly wondered which era had the more honest paperwork.

• Boss Day, Handled: Lands on the manager who calls layoffs a realignment and can still laugh at himself.
• The True Part: Historians generally place the Golden Age of Piracy around the 1650s to 1730, with Marcus Rediker putting its sharp peak at roughly 1716 to 1726.
• Corner Office Energy: At home in a cubicle, on a conference call, or at the retirement party for the one who escaped.

Every crew needs a flag, even the one that only sails as far as the living room. This round ornament comes in ceramic at 3 inches or aluminum at 3.6 inches, string included, and a damp cloth is all the care it asks.