Good idea, wrong innovator. Bonus if you can use a member of the new recruits not normally given a starring role. Details please.
{trickle trickle trickle trickle DOONK}
Jamie leaned back in appreciation. He made it work! He made something work! And it was beautiful.
"What the hell, Squirt?"
"It’s an office meditation toy," he announced. Sure, this one was made out of whatever he could scrounge, but the finished product… was going to be awesome.
The pipe set just so under the recirculating water tipped with a {DOONK} noise.
"That sorta thing’s for gardens, Squirt. You’d never get anyone to set that thing up in their office. Too distracting. Too annoying. Too big."
"Aawwwwww…"
Three weeks later, someone else had a similar idea on the shelves. Albeit, briefly on the shelves before an eager customer nabbed it and paid twice what Jamie had imagined he could sell it for.
Jamie stared in red-faced fury at the display poster and wished he could get away with kicking Mister Logan.
"Hey, Squirt, we’re headin’…" Logan stopped. He, too, had connected the dots.
Jamie, meanwhile, was fighting back tears.
"Too big, you said," he managed. "Too annoying." Sniff. "I coulda made a whole bunch’a money…"
Logan was shaking his head and whispering unprintable things about stupid people. “Tell ya what, kid. Next time you have a dumb idea, I’ll back it.”
"He-ey…"