Corporate IdiocyComedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Go greenA few years back my then-employer implemented a "great idea (TM)" - all emails were to include, in the signature, a little picture of a tree and the message "Help save trees - Please only print this email if you really need to"
Every day at 5pm the printer would be littered with countless discarded sheets, containing solely that line, where its inclusion had pushed a printed email from one page to two. And yes, while thinking it was a great idea to include that line in people's signatures, no-one had thought about the possibility of double-sided printing.
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Hardly a corporate fail to be fair.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 5:44,
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Good thing the question is corporate idiocy then, isn't it?(
BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 9:01,
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I save paperby not using a notebook, writing on the backs of printouts, instead. Mandatory double-sided printing has put the kibosh on that.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 9:11,
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