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- From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
- Subject: Shenanigans at work
- Message-ID: <reid.46.727654507@ucs.indiana.edu>
- Keywords: tea bag, lawyer, Acme
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:15:07 GMT
-
- from _FM 13-2: TRICKS, EVIL_ by Kentucky Jones
-
- (posted with permission :-)
-
- WORK
-
- A close friend is a secretary at an enormous law firm in downtown
- Chicago. The atmosphere is anal-retentive, regimented and humor-
- less, but they do allow coffee breaks.
-
- The management (and some employees) are incredibly cheap and
- petty. Someone complained about the low quality of tea bags in
- the break room; the office manager agreed to buy a better grade
- of tea but refused to deploy it until the old supply was used up.
- One day she caught the original complainer trashing some of the
- old tea bags, so now she keeps tea bags locked up and they are
- available only upon request.
-
- As a joke, our friend covertly produced and distributed a lengthy
- "Tea-Bag Requisition Form" written in finest legalese, in which
- the supplicant surrenders all Constitutional rights and resolves
- The Firm of any liability, signature to be witnessed and notar-
- ized, etc. etc.
-
- Eventually, someone actually filled out and turned in a TBRF.
- Management's reaction was to launch an investigation to discover
- who had been wasting Company time and resources.
-
- ---
-
- Start the rumor that your megabehemoth-conglomerate employer has
- acquired Acme Corporation after the bankrupting product-liability
- lawsuit of Coyote vs. Acme.
-
- "You better shape up, or we'll transfer you to the Acme Anti-
- Roadrunner Systems Division and put you in charge of testing. We
- own them, you know..."
-
- --
-
- Frank reid@ucs.indiana.edu
-