Paul slices the cake

The summer was drawing to a close and many of the under-managers were returning from their holidays. It did not seem to matter if they were away at the same time as each other but the drivers had to stagger their holidays to ensure several of them were always around.

Now that most people were back Paul set about sending some administrative emails - these had been sadly or mercifully (depending on one's point of view) absent over the previous month and he felt he needed to introduce some changes. If only for changes sake.

So the drivers were not too surprised to find a message in their Inboxes one morning informing them of changes to the areas of responsibility of the Main Administrative Task Reorganising Operational Notetakers. Few of the drivers knew what it was these people did anyway and they certainly did not see them around the company's shop floor very often. It was therefore news to them that they had 'areas of responsibility' at all and still quite mystifying as to what exactly was their role.

Paul however decreed:

From the beginning of the month the Main Administrative Task Reorganising Operational Notetaker previously assigned to the Refuelling areas will take over responsibility for the Washer Section and the one for the Job Booking Centre will now be in charge of Single Colour Parking. The roles for supervising the Cleaning Section with extra responsibility for the Clean Below the Ankle policy will swap with the previous role of overseeing the compulsory in-house training programme.

The drivers looked at all this and wondered. What on earth was the point?

"Hey, Paul!" they wanted to shout. "If you slice a cake a different way does it get any bigger?"

But Paul wasn't listening. He was counting all the extra income he was getting from the 125% price rise in the car parking fares that had quietly come into effect that month.