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The one.

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A present from the boss.

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Of the year goes twice daily as I'm a
man of how time flies a funny present

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balance all according to what you mean
by vanity. It's no laughing matter.

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In fact that has to do with
a very serious problem.

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The grains of sand in this hour glass of
been carefully monitored ten minutes the

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length of a coffee break. The problem.

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Well it seems like somebody's ball
just don't know how to tell time

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and the carting the boss it's costing the
company thousands of dollars every year.

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Now now don't get me wrong I like company
in fact I'd be out on a break right now

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but less because well I'm honest

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but it's up to may to figure out
a way for the paypal to realize

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that I caught a bright manes ten minutes
are fifteen at the most Same Vika small

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bang to get upset about. But it's pretty
big when it comes to dollars and cents.

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You'd be surprised.

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Mike I was in the boss's office the extent
of the problem as pointed out by the

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fact

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that today more than seven out of ten workers
are taking the coffee breaks as compared

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with only half this number ten years ago.

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Others know

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that the hot cup of coffee enjoyed by
about twenty seven million Americans is

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costing the industry more than
a billion dollars annually.

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That's think of

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that over a billion dollars That's million

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on level. What would you guess
the coffee break is costing us.

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You're really serious about this
aren't you for not a big operation.

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Four hundred people on the payroll.

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Even so I'd bet my bottom

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but the coffee break is costing as at
least thirty thousand dollars a year

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and right. Thirty thousand dollars.

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All it has to happen

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and it does happen is for half of our people
to take an extra ten minutes to figure

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out a daily loss of one hundred thirty
dollars multiplied by two hundred forty two

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working days and they gone figure
it out thirty thousand dollars.

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OK but what can we do about it a coffee
break is almost an American institution.

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You can just call and. I'm not
talking about the break itself.

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That's another ten minutes.
Another thirty thousand.

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I'm talking about the abuses of

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that thirty grand I don't think we should
have to say Well now there's more to this

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and you're going to say

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that again a lot more for the past two
weeks I've studied the coffee break.

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But there are people.

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Now that ten minutes starts when they
get their hands on the cup of coffee.

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What happens before and after is a
matter of small concern to them

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that it right.

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I think.

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Why the now why

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the the the the the

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brows whereas out

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the back that point.

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Narrow the gap narrowed white

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men the three point four one back

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by the outback

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that back back back back to the

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point. And that's the way it
stacked somebody earlier today.

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First thing you know they're all
gone when clowns almost everybody.

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At least a coffee break starts five ten
minutes I had a Tarot maybe they do

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or they're right. Maybe it's
better if I don't I'll go at once.

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Except for the fact that. On
the way back in time delivery.

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You know what

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that thing at the gym the
minute they get back the

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the day. Frank.

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But then suddenly now
this is my pride and joy.

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Well it's out

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but what it what it is a good one book.

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Time as a way of getting away from us
young. I was minutes of mean nothing.

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The employee cost this
organization a lot of my own

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that you're the boss who
will do whatever you say.

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However I do think that there's a danger
of losing side of the workers viewpoint.

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OK I go along with

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that as one of the reasons why you're
here as personnel manager I expect you to

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represent the people who speak up.

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Well hourly average worker
thanks of into a day.

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There's a work around him

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that never gets done

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that clock on the wall at the
magic hours of ten three.

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Is a kid momentary freedom and he needs
that freedom. JOE That's ridiculous.

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You're overplaying it. We ought to conform
to rules and regulation to do I do.

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Everybody does. But but that's a general.

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Let's let's not let down problem
can cause a worker to forget

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logic and common sense.

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The coffee break stand for
something take it away

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and it suddenly becomes very important.

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The law is going to raise beggar
and more costly problems.

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I'm not asking that it be taken away.

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All I'm asking is that they take their
ten minutes I want to go at that.

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OK But is that possible. I
sound like a leading question.

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But let's address the worker
has only ten minutes.

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Is it possible for him to get
to the place get his coffee.

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Get back in that like the time quiet
of this job but that's not my problem.

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Yet it is often lost
time and he suggested.

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What about coffee dispensers located in
certain areas. I'm not going to try that.

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Study expense and the tenant come
in. Twice daily. And at first.

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Everybody thought it was a great idea.

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It was something for nothing right
away the boss was a great guy

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but it wasn't long until coffee

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gets worse every day

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and it wasn't long before human nature
began to show zero in other ways.

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Speaking of problems. The company sponsored
coffee break has a few of its own

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but getting back to this matter of Apple
time I'd be more lenient in my thinking if

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the abuse did them from
having to wait for service.

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Usually it's an entirely
different situation.

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Can you imagine.

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Tell me how to run.

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When I don't belong at a coffee break down

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and slip on a knife into each other like
a bunch of all women on the other hand

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ours can be a place where business is
transacted it can be a period for goofing off

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but it can be a good time when your people
get to know each other. That's good.

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Don't you work better with people you know
if you're working around a stranger you

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spend a lot of time trying to decide
where you're aware they are far

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and I'll say that. But now let's
consider one of my pet peeves.

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When. Of course they all have to
stop buying a powder ten minutes.

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Gone with a cigarette and putting on a
new face. Harry's diner on the altar.

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It's all a saying you never
know who might be there

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and talk about the grapevine rather this
is one of the original seeds are planted

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another complaint is that
all too often the few

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that fear each other get in their own little
circle and other people are left out.

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And where do they go on the way back to the
office you get to the powder room again

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and all our readiness procedures in the
compass little adjustments known only to a

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woman.

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Out for the first stab at our
own disguise your hero and.

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Do I detect a bit of personal
prejudice to a degree.

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Perhaps

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but there's a lot of truth in what I've
said to certain people take from thirty to

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forty five minutes for a coffee
break. I can remedy that.

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Not John they're good workers.

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Otherwise that I had their
names long before this.

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No there has to be another
solution to this is human nature.

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And you're the expert so I'm
giving you the problem.

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And I'm expecting a solution out.

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Now you may have an educational problem
with yours. But one way or another.

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I want our people to realize
management side of. Problem.

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The dollars and cents

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that you hire people must be taught
not to take advantage of a situation

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that just grew like topsy

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is a present for you.
Jones from a banks. Gone.

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I know you're seeing one of those
before but this one special target or.

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Instead of an hour. This
one measures ten minutes.

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The theoretical length of time
of one of our coffee breaks.

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I want you to use this twice
daily at ten and three.

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For the length of time necessary for you
to come up with a solution diet problem.

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The problem.

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So I didn't see you down for coffee
mat thought maybe you might be heard

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that her right doesn't own have a never
mind you'll hear about all this is a cup of

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coffee. Thank you for the
coffee any time any time.

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I have a least it keeps my cross
to the stairways name with

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one vital answer question.