Ain't That A Kick In The Head

For the majority of my working life I was employed as a customer service representative at a printing company. When projects came in for production, I wrote the work order for the plant and communicated schedules back to the customer. I spent a lot of time on the phone. On a rare occasion I might meet with a customer, but more often than that I was talking with machine operators and searching for stuff in the warehouse. Our business was generally very good, but it ebbed and flowed like all businesses do. During one slowdown management decided that part of the blame was the result of casual Friday. I am not kidding. They honestly believed a decline in revenue was because people were wearing dockers and polo shirts to work on Fridays. We were sent a memo that said: "I am announcing effective immediately that casual Friday, but more importantly the casual Friday mindset is abolished effective immediately." That's right, the beatings will continue until moral improves. ...