A secret organization operates from tunnels below the nation’s oldest city- St. Augustine, FL- to protect a sacred treasure: The Aitalus, a modern-day Fountain of Youth.
A time traveler goes on the run after being convicted of a crime she’s yet to commit. Cowboys, evil secret societies, and the second American Civil War are the least of Hero Mcfitzowitz’s problems.
Hm. So things that are legal, but against company policy. Top-of-the-head examples would include skimpy (but not public-indecency-level) clothing, drinking, use of any and all electronic devices (I'm thinking through all the pages I had to sign on my first days in the office), bringing pets, giving the worst possible customer service, open discussions of pay or other compensation (prohibited by some workplaces I know of), the use of work resources for personal purposes (printing off a book on the copier, could be way fun, depending on the nature of the company and the materials accessible), open proselytizing or personal-business-running on work property, sexual activity (again, without violating overarching laws), fraternizing between bosses and underlings (see previous point), and I'm sure there's a host of others that fall into that comedic sweet spot between what's allowable in everyday life but not allowable in an office environment. A darker undertone that could make for a fun pseudo-dramatic throughline for the overall plot could be some kind of truly off-the-wall company policy that absolutely prohibits people from accessing one particular floor in the company building on pain of immediate termination, and most of the workers/characters don't even think to violate it because it's just so ingrained in everyone, but the main ones do, and find, after many foibles, that the floor in question is (depending on the tone you want to send with the book) either a bachelor-party-level shag pad for upper management where HR rules NEVER seem to apply, or something unutterably lame that makes them question the validity of their office-based lives going forward.
Hm. So things that are legal, but against company policy. Top-of-the-head examples would include skimpy (but not public-indecency-level) clothing, drinking, use of any and all electronic devices (I'm thinking through all the pages I had to sign on my first days in the office), bringing pets, giving the worst possible customer service, open discussions of pay or other compensation (prohibited by some workplaces I know of), the use of work resources for personal purposes (printing off a book on the copier, could be way fun, depending on the nature of the company and the materials accessible), open proselytizing or personal-business-running on work property, sexual activity (again, without violating overarching laws), fraternizing between bosses and underlings (see previous point), and I'm sure there's a host of others that fall into that comedic sweet spot between what's allowable in everyday life but not allowable in an office environment. A darker undertone that could make for a fun pseudo-dramatic throughline for the overall plot could be some kind of truly off-the-wall company policy that absolutely prohibits people from accessing one particular floor in the company building on pain of immediate termination, and most of the workers/characters don't even think to violate it because it's just so ingrained in everyone, but the main ones do, and find, after many foibles, that the floor in question is (depending on the tone you want to send with the book) either a bachelor-party-level shag pad for upper management where HR rules NEVER seem to apply, or something unutterably lame that makes them question the validity of their office-based lives going forward.