Thursday, September 20, 2007

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Scene 83 from the movie Send it to me through FaceBook. Young New Boss wants to get through meeting quickly to avoid it being hijacked and running long. Especially by Old Crusty Employee.

Young new boss: Item 3 on the agenda. Proposed Reshuffle. Four suggestions have been received from two office staff. Those suggestions have been sent to everyone as an attachment to yesterday's intradepartmental memo headed Proposed Departmental Shuffle.


Old crusty employee: Excuse me. I haven't seen those suggestions.


Young new boss: It ran to many pages so to save paper...


Old crusty employee: But this is a meeting to discuss the issue. Just how many pages?


Young new boss: Er, more than ten. Fourteen I think.


Old crusty employee: Ten, fourteen, whatever. It's not a lot Why don't we have those suggestions as paper handouts?


Young new boss: As I said, we're trying to save paper so heavy attachments are posted for staff to read on-screen or print as they wish.


Old crusty employee: I don't use email.

Young new boss: It was also posted on the home page.


Old crusty employee: You know what? This is not about saving paper. I view this an attempt to sideline some people using IT tools as a weapon.


Young new boss: Oh no. It's not that. How could you think such a thing? We'll print you a copy, Saul. Everyone else has seen it the memo, right?
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