Office Semaphore

Now that cubicles have gone the way of the dodo and the private office, and we are left with acres of open office space, we need ways of communicating across the paperless prairie. We could simply shout, but that is frowned upon in modern office etiquette. We could telephone, but if neither party is standing by their desk, that requires remembering people's cell phone numbers. We could the interoffice mail system, but that only picks up at ten and three.

So let's reinstate semaphore. Things have changed a bit since our boy scouting days, so we obviously need to update the messages - "Make that a grande double Mocchachino with whipped cream and sugar on the side", for example, "The photocopier is out of paper again", and, of course, the old staple "Who's got the key to the men's room?"