“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” — H17
A tantalizing project awaits someone out there, to determine exactly how much is wasted on the job, in time, attention, and therefore money, by people deflecting inanities and other forms of chaos. It would be one thing, maybe, if just able to bear down and focus upon one’s own work. Though this is surely true at just about every company, particularly one with even a half-baked corporate structure in place, the phenomenon remains an out of control bus with no brakes around these parts. The organizational confusion continues unimpeded, the job description confusion, the policy confusion. Merely the latest scrambled code in this transmission series is launched by Todd, who sends another of his left field emails which would imply an ongoing discussion about something…even though these are the first known words he’s said on the topic:
Okay people, I’m tired of talking about the paid lunches. It is not up for debate. Every hourly employee MUST clock out for a half hour lunch, every shift. No exceptions. This is the law.
This topic has cropped up a couple of times over the years, of course, though not at all since Duane Hatley departed. His emails on the subject were a lot more measured, most likely because he didn’t care about this concept any more than the “violators” do. Of which Edgar is certainly one. On the rare occasion that he has felt like taking a…
