What Passes for Brilliance

[hafoc]

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.

Comments

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Classic trick, really. Redefine the terms.

Out of curiosity, what schedule would you get if you didn't submit a request?

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

8-5, five days a week.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Have you considered actually submitting an alternative schedule that's...actually, objectively, alternative?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I had to read that twice. So by redefining your current work schedule as "alternative" you now magically make savings on the fuel you use?

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

I think theoretically, but the Mustang doesn't seem to have noticed.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

That truly is a stunning moment in weird bureaucracy theater.