What Passes for Brilliance

If you don't commute to work as many days per week, you cut fuel costs. So to help employees with fuel costs the Governor mandated that our organizations should look favorably on alternative work schedules.

The Director of my department decided to comply with this directive by redefining what had been our usual work schedule as "alternative" and requiring all of us to submit requests, in writing, to change our schedule to what it already is.

I have seen more than my share of bureaucracy, but the brilliance and audacity of this move has me shaking my head in stunned disbelief.