Tea and Spite

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Imagine everyone on your team puts aside one hour a day for completing small tasks and answering quick questions. Further imagine that they each post a shared document containing a sign-up sheet for a day’s block, including only a limited number of slots. If you want someone on your team to, say, give you his availability for an upcoming client visit, you must find a free slot in which to record this request. He’ll then see it and give you an answer during that day’s administrative block—freeing him from the burden of having to manage all of these obligations in a single, overwhelming pile of ...more
Tea and Spite
Dear god this would be hell in nearly any office I've ever known of. I appreciate that it's intended to be outlandish, but holy hell I was not expecting just *how* outlandish. How about everyone just learns to read the damned office calendar.
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