Helena Handbasket

By Tivoli

The client wants to cut costs and has decided that reducing the selection of teas available at the tea points is a good starting point. There have been endless conversations about which teas should be removed; Earl Grey? Green? Peppermint? Cranberry & Something-or-other? Obviously English Breakfast will remain.
Ah! But we can't remove anything from the tea-point closest to the prima donnas otherwise they will have tantrums.
So one flavour of tea has been removed from all-but-one tea-points and someone has noticed and had a tantrum, and so that now needs to be managed.
Meanwhile, a motorcyclist refuses to park in the motorcycle bays because then he cannot gaze upon his motorcycle from his desk, and anyway, he's only using the space he normally parks his Porsche in when the weather isn't so nice.
The issue here of course is that after two years of wfh, the prima donnas are being wooed back into the office. But what idiot imagined that savings of any significance could possibly come from dropping one flavour of tea? The same idiot who decided to buy all of them a chocolate Easter egg? A free breakfast? A designer vacuum water-bottle when we have chilled (still and sparkling) water on tap?
And people are paid decent salaries to deal with this rubbish because the people kicking up are all significantly over-paid.
Meanwhile 800 P&O staff have lost their jobs and those who have replaced them are reported to be being paid £2/hour or perhaps less.

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