Dave Bonta's tiny poem plays with a familiar workplace idea: that you can change your surroundings, but the real work is changing how you think. The first line is a neat little puzzle. At the office, the speaker changes the office, which could mean literally moving things around, or reshaping what the job and the place mean to them.
The next lines turn to the mind. A "good mind" comes up with "a good argument / to do other- / wise." The word "otherwise" is split across two lines, so the poem enacts what it describes: it breaks a word apart and makes it do something else. The title, "Bait and switch," hints at a trick, as if the speaker is quietly persuading themselves, or us, to take a different path.
The mood is dry, playful, and a little sly. The speaker seems restless with routine but amused rather than angry, finding small rebellions in language and thought.