Another New Rule

I wrote previously about the common but totally random creation of new and comlicated rules at our office. Today came another one.

From now on, if MSB is on a phone call and someone else calls for her (we do not have voicemail or any automated way to take messages), we are supposed to write the caller's name, company, and message down on a piece of paper and walk it into her office so that she can look at it and decide whether or not to end her current call in favor of the new one. She wants this done for every call. "Even sales calls?" I asked. "Every call" is the answer. Ugh.

This means for such a call we are being told to collect the caller's name, company, email, phone number, and message. Write this down and walk it into her office. Walk back to our desk and send her an email containing all the collected information - but remember to delete our standard email signature on these messages because MSB finds it distracting. Yes, that process certainly makes sense IN AN OFFICE OF ONLY 5 PEOPLE.

Fucking shit, man.