The one.
A present from the boss.
Of the year goes twice daily as I'm a man of how time flies a funny present
balance all according to what you mean by vanity. It's no laughing matter.
In fact that has to do with a very serious problem.
The grains of sand in this hour glass of been carefully monitored ten minutes the
length of a coffee break. The problem.
Well it seems like somebody's ball just don't know how to tell time
and the carting the boss it's costing the company thousands of dollars every year.
Now now don't get me wrong I like company in fact I'd be out on a break right now
but less because well I'm honest
but it's up to may to figure out a way for the paypal to realize
that I caught a bright manes ten minutes are fifteen at the most Same Vika small
bang to get upset about. But it's pretty big when it comes to dollars and cents.
You'd be surprised.
Mike I was in the boss's office the extent of the problem as pointed out by the
fact
that today more than seven out of ten workers are taking the coffee breaks as compared
with only half this number ten years ago.
Others know
that the hot cup of coffee enjoyed by about twenty seven million Americans is
costing the industry more than a billion dollars annually.
That's think of
that over a billion dollars That's million
on level. What would you guess the coffee break is costing us.
You're really serious about this aren't you for not a big operation.
Four hundred people on the payroll.
Even so I'd bet my bottom
but the coffee break is costing as at least thirty thousand dollars a year
and right. Thirty thousand dollars.
All it has to happen
and it does happen is for half of our people to take an extra ten minutes to figure
out a daily loss of one hundred thirty dollars multiplied by two hundred forty two
working days and they gone figure it out thirty thousand dollars.
OK but what can we do about it a coffee break is almost an American institution.
You can just call and. I'm not talking about the break itself.
That's another ten minutes. Another thirty thousand.
I'm talking about the abuses of
that thirty grand I don't think we should have to say Well now there's more to this
and you're going to say
that again a lot more for the past two weeks I've studied the coffee break.
But there are people.
Now that ten minutes starts when they get their hands on the cup of coffee.
What happens before and after is a matter of small concern to them
that it right.
I think.
Why the now why
the the the the the
brows whereas out
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men the three point four one back
by the outback
that back back back back to the
point. And that's the way it stacked somebody earlier today.
First thing you know they're all gone when clowns almost everybody.
At least a coffee break starts five ten minutes I had a Tarot maybe they do
or they're right. Maybe it's better if I don't I'll go at once.
Except for the fact that. On the way back in time delivery.
You know what
that thing at the gym the minute they get back the
the day. Frank.
But then suddenly now this is my pride and joy.
Well it's out
but what it what it is a good one book.
Time as a way of getting away from us young. I was minutes of mean nothing.
The employee cost this organization a lot of my own
that you're the boss who will do whatever you say.
However I do think that there's a danger of losing side of the workers viewpoint.
OK I go along with
that as one of the reasons why you're here as personnel manager I expect you to
represent the people who speak up.
Well hourly average worker thanks of into a day.
There's a work around him
that never gets done
that clock on the wall at the magic hours of ten three.
Is a kid momentary freedom and he needs that freedom. JOE That's ridiculous.
You're overplaying it. We ought to conform to rules and regulation to do I do.
Everybody does. But but that's a general.
Let's let's not let down problem can cause a worker to forget
logic and common sense.
The coffee break stand for something take it away
and it suddenly becomes very important.
The law is going to raise beggar and more costly problems.
I'm not asking that it be taken away.
All I'm asking is that they take their ten minutes I want to go at that.
OK But is that possible. I sound like a leading question.
But let's address the worker has only ten minutes.
Is it possible for him to get to the place get his coffee.
Get back in that like the time quiet of this job but that's not my problem.
Yet it is often lost time and he suggested.
What about coffee dispensers located in certain areas. I'm not going to try that.
Study expense and the tenant come in. Twice daily. And at first.
Everybody thought it was a great idea.
It was something for nothing right away the boss was a great guy
but it wasn't long until coffee
gets worse every day
and it wasn't long before human nature began to show zero in other ways.
Speaking of problems. The company sponsored coffee break has a few of its own
but getting back to this matter of Apple time I'd be more lenient in my thinking if
the abuse did them from having to wait for service.
Usually it's an entirely different situation.
Can you imagine.
Tell me how to run.
When I don't belong at a coffee break down
and slip on a knife into each other like a bunch of all women on the other hand
ours can be a place where business is transacted it can be a period for goofing off
but it can be a good time when your people get to know each other. That's good.
Don't you work better with people you know if you're working around a stranger you
spend a lot of time trying to decide where you're aware they are far
and I'll say that. But now let's consider one of my pet peeves.
When. Of course they all have to stop buying a powder ten minutes.
Gone with a cigarette and putting on a new face. Harry's diner on the altar.
It's all a saying you never know who might be there
and talk about the grapevine rather this is one of the original seeds are planted
another complaint is that all too often the few
that fear each other get in their own little circle and other people are left out.
And where do they go on the way back to the office you get to the powder room again
and all our readiness procedures in the compass little adjustments known only to a
woman.
Out for the first stab at our own disguise your hero and.
Do I detect a bit of personal prejudice to a degree.
Perhaps
but there's a lot of truth in what I've said to certain people take from thirty to
forty five minutes for a coffee break. I can remedy that.
Not John they're good workers.
Otherwise that I had their names long before this.
No there has to be another solution to this is human nature.
And you're the expert so I'm giving you the problem.
And I'm expecting a solution out.
Now you may have an educational problem with yours. But one way or another.
I want our people to realize management side of. Problem.
The dollars and cents
that you hire people must be taught not to take advantage of a situation
that just grew like topsy
is a present for you. Jones from a banks. Gone.
I know you're seeing one of those before but this one special target or.
Instead of an hour. This one measures ten minutes.
The theoretical length of time of one of our coffee breaks.
I want you to use this twice daily at ten and three.
For the length of time necessary for you to come up with a solution diet problem.
The problem.
So I didn't see you down for coffee mat thought maybe you might be heard
that her right doesn't own have a never mind you'll hear about all this is a cup of
coffee. Thank you for the coffee any time any time.
I have a least it keeps my cross to the stairways name with
one vital answer question.