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Comedian 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

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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I have literally just been told that 'to avoid confusion, please refer to this weeks part of the project as "project" 1 and last weeks part as "project" 2'. When I asked why we didn't refer to the first project as 1 and the second as 2 I was met with looks of bafflement and told that it would be 'too confusing now that we have agreed what to call them'...
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 15:43, 5 replies)
Why don't they just call them
'cleaning out behind the french fry machine'

and

'restocking the napkin holders'?
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 16:00, closed)
Because only my boss is allowed to do those.
I haven't got my 4th star yet.
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 16:03, closed)
In my experience
Most bosses can't be trusted with cleaning implements or be trusted not to eat the napkins.
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 16:05, closed)
ah but
smart people know, the napkins taste better than the burgers.
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 16:13, closed)
It's going to be fun over the next few weeks
when they realise they're now working on project 0, -1, -2 etc
(, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 16:28, closed)

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