Together, they helped paint the management offices, pressure washed the courtyards, sorted donations, organized the thrift shop, and cleaned up the parking lot outside the building.
In Microsoft's official history of Windows, it recounts that Windows 1.0 shipped with "several programs, including MS-DOS file management, Paint, Windows Writer, Notepad, Calculator, and a calendar, card file, and clock to help you manage day-to-day activities," although application windows could not overlap.
And sure enough, he takes evident pleasure in painting the senior management of the News of the World as a group of sad, bullying fantasists (one editor apparently insisted that his colleagues call him "Love Rat").
Common environmental safety issues include water impurities, lead-based paint, mercury, asbestos, waste management and indoor air pollutants like mold/mildew, carbon monoxide, tobacco smoke, allergens and dust.
In laying out the charges, Ms. Mauskopf offered new details of what happened on the ferry that day, and painted a picture of management lapses that she said had led to the accident.
But management still painted a rosy picture in spite of the drop in voice revenue.
The room is a sort of ever-changing shrine: fans leave graffiti all over the walls, ceiling, door, heating vent, and windows, and the management occasionally paints it all over so that the process of veneration can start all over again.
We may never know if it was pure talent that won her the top spot, or Simon Cowell's careful PR management that painted her as an underdog, even when she was the strongest competitor; but based on vocal talent, the Floridian was undeniably deserving.
The scene is a reminder of what Nick Hornby, in "Fever Pitch," called "the cruel clarity" of sports: Sport doesn't allow you to dream in the way that writing or acting or painting or middle-management does: I knew when I was eleven that I would never play for Arsenal.
The Nets have painted themselves into a corner, but at least management used bright red paint, gussying up the ghastly landscape of cranes and parking garages.
