Corporate Songwriting

So we'll confuse them under the auspices

Garran's "Of the forms we make them fill out thrice" is the winner. +10 to Garran.

Proposal: This is not a title. [Trivial]

Add to the list of TLA:

HOD - Head of Department

And replace every instance of "head of department" and "department's head" with HOD in the Mission Statement.

Timed out; passed 6 to 4 by Brendan at 7:25 pm GMT on 7.8.2004. +7 to Worthstream, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal: Woah there [Trivial]

Change the final paragraph of Rule 1 from:

At the end of the first dynasty of Brendan, every instance of the word "Mission Statement" in the "Mission Statement" shall be changed to "Mission Statement", and this sentence shall repeal itself.

to

At the end of the first dynasty of Brendan, every instance of the word "Mission Statement" in the "Mission Statement" shall be changed to "Ruleset", and this sentence shall repeal itself.

Passed 12 to 1 by Brendan at 7:22 pm GMT on 7.8.2004. +2 to Trumancapote, +1 to Brendan.

Add to the list of TLA:


HOD - Head of Department


And replace every instance of "head of department" and "department's head" with HOD in the Mission Statement.

Project : Marketing

Business Cards. Cost: 1
[Self-Worth 10]
A hundred smudgy purple cards embossed with the TTC logo and up to three spelling mistakes of your choice.

Approved by Accounts, Research and Management. +5 to Kevan, +1 to Brendan, +1 to Marketing.

Proposal : Six Thinking Hats [Trivial]

In the text of "Company Hats", replace "every Department in which every Teamperson possesses a Hat gains one Efficiency" with:-

every Department in which every Teamperson possesses a Hat (and which has at least two Teamspersons) gains one Efficiency

...because what good is a hat if nobody can see it?

Passed 10 to 0 by Brendan at 6:26 pm GMT on 7.5.2004. +2 to Kevan, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal : Lazy Eyes [Trivial]

I should have looked more carefully at the deletion portions of Worthstream's Quirks Proposal. I thought about changing my vote to a Veto and retroactively undoing the whole thing, but I'm playing by the rules.

The point is that right now, a key portion of Rule 14 is missing, and didn't get transferred to Rule 19.

Add between the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Rule 14 - Office Equipment:

If a Department's Outlay ever exceeds its Budget for reasons other than illegal claims (for example, if its Efficiency is reduced, bringing its Budget below its current Outlay), any Teamsperson may remove TOSs from any member of that Department until the Department's Outlay is not greater than its Budget.

Also, might as well fix this:

Replace all mentions of "Admin" in Rule 19 - Departments' Special with "Management."

Passed 8 to 0 by Brendan at 6:10 pm GMT on 7.2.2004. +3 to Brendan.

Survey

Because I don't know, could you reply with:

Age:
Gender:
Country, State/Province/Something else, and Town or residence:
Occupation:
How often you're able to check Blognomic in a normal week:
Something Interesting About You:

If you don't want us/me to know this stuff I won't be offended and will draw the logical conclusion that you're hiding terrible secrets.

Proposal: Secretary

<Declaimer> Due to office general confusion, even if it does not seem, I AM E.lite. </Declaimer>

Add this new rule:

Every Department can have a Secretary. Secretaries are tracked in the Stuff column of the GNDT next to the name of the Head of Department.

There are two kind of secretaries:

YPS (Young Pretty Secretary)

OES (Old Efficient Secretary)

Owning a YPS costs 2 a week. Owning a OES costs 4 a week. Secretaries are paid every Saturday at noon.

Every week YPSs subtract 5 Dignity to each Teamsperson of the Department which owns the YPS (because of their distracting nature) and add 1 Efficiency to the Department itself.
Every week OESs add 1 Efficiency to the Department they belong to.

Secretaries may be fired at any time and must be fired if the Department they belong to cannot pay their salary.
Failed 1 to 9 by Brendan at 6:01 pm GMT on 7.2.2004. -3 to E.Lite, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal : Coup De Ville

Add a new rule, Alphaperson:

If any Teamsperson other than the District Manager is the only member of Management, he or she may claim Victory.

Self-killed; failed by Brendan at 5:59 pm GMT on 7.2.2004. -2 to Brendan.

Proposal : Press Any Key [Trivial]

[ Sheer budgetary cost seems a sufficient technological disincentive, in the continued absense of a Support department. Instructional pamphlets will be distributed. ]

Reword the effects of the PC from "No Teamsperson may claim a PC without the express permission of a member of the Management Department, as recorded in a GNDT comment." to:-

A Teamsperson must own a PC to claim Software TOSs.

And add a new Quality:-

Software. A Teamsperson may only possess Software if they have a PC; if they lose their PC, all their Software is also lost. Software should be listed in brackets after the PC, in the GNDT.

Timed out; failed 4 to 7 by Brendan at 5:52 pm GMT on 7.2.2004. -3 to Kevan, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal : It Doesn't Grow On Trees [Trivial]

[ -1 Dignity is nothing. ]

In Rule 16 (ELF), replace "penalty of -1 dignity for that teamperson" with:-

penalty of -10 Dignity for every such memo beyond the second

Passed 9 to 0 by Brendan at 4:23 pm GMT on 7.1.2004. +2 to Kevan, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal: Automatic TLA

<Declaimer> Due to office general confusion, even if it does not seem, I AM E.lite. </Declaimer>

Add to rule 14 - Office Equipment:

Whenever a Project defines within itself a TLA for the TOS, when the Project is approved the TLA is automatically added to the TLA list (rule 15)

Passed 12 to 0 by Brendan at 4:19 pm GMT on 7.1.2004. +2 to E.Lite, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal: Fixing PCs

Actually their the rarest, but still useless...

Add the quality: [Self-Worth 30] to the PC in the list of TOS.

Passed 12 to 0 by Brendan at 4:16 pm GMT on 7.1.2004. +2 to Worthstream, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal: BTW [Trivial]

This come to mind while writing Proposal: Quirks

Add to the list of TLA:

NCR - Non-Core Rule

And replace every instance of "non-core rule" (with or without the "-") in the Mission Statement.

Passed 10 to 1 by Brendan at 4:13 pm GMT on 7.1.2004. +7 to Worthstream, +1 to Brendan.

Proposal: Quirks

We were moving in this direction last week, let's finish it!

Every department should have its own "Special power" to differentiate it from the others.

Create a new rule, Departments' special:

Should this rule be in conflict with another non-core rule, contents of the former will override the latter.

The Accounts Department may claim 1 Efficiency for each time another Department goes over Budget, provided that at least one of those who removed a TOS to correct it was a member of Accounts; on the other hand, if the Accounts Department itself goes over Budget, and a member of another Department acts to correct it, each Member of Accounts loses 10 dignity.

Projects proposed by the Research Department require 1 less vote of approval than normal in order to be approved (That is, the approval of admin and only one other department).

Sales department has a Budget equal to its Efficiency multiplied by 15.

If the line chosen for TCS comes from a member of the Marketing department, that Teamsperson gains 20 dignity.

Also delete the fifth paragraph from rule 14 and the last sentence from the sixth paragraph of rule 18 (as they got moved here).

Management is not an ordinary department, no need to give everyone else in it the same powers as the District Manager.

Timed out; passed 7 to 2 by Brendan at 3:49 pm GMT on 7.1.2004. +10 to Worthstream, +2 to Brendan.

Reassignations: Kevan and ChinDoGu

Due to their low productivity in the last two minutes, I've decided that these two Teamspersons need a better outlet for their creative energies. They'll be working in Marketing, starting immediately. Hope you enjoy the soda water and stale biscuits, fellas.

Promotions: Kevan and ChinDoGu

Due to their long and honorable service in Research, I've decided that we need these two hard-working Teamspersons up here in Management. Hope you enjoy the wine and cheese, fellas.

It's Not A Dream

Today, in real life, I assigned myself an issue regarding the creation of TCPSS, under the auspices of TPS, for TSP purposes.

Just... just thought I'd mention that.

Project: Management

Pundits long ago determined that Xerox was not in the business of selling copiers, but the business of selling copier toner. Thanks to advancements in the field of Hands-On Office Technology, The TTC Conglomerate now allows your company to bypass Xerox and have your office drones create their own toner, right at their desks! They can simply crush our special bulk-sale mixture of saltpetre, sulfur and charcoal with their new...

Plug-And-Play Mortar And Pestle. Cost: 3
[Slackers Only]
When placing this TOS in his or her Stuff, a Teamsperson need only enter its abbreviation, PAPMAP. On claiming a PAPMAP, a Teamsperson may pay 20 Dignity to increase his or her Department's Efficiency by 1. Should any Teamsperson have a PAPMAP removed from his or her Stuff, his or her Department (or former Department, if this Teamsperson is losing all non-Personal Stuff because they are no longer in a Department) loses 1 Efficiency.

Approved by all Departments. +6 to Brendan, +1 to Management.

Project: Sales

Generally, terrestrial living beings are based on carbon. Man, though, is based on caffeine

LSD. Cost:5
[Rare]
No Special Effects

Workers productivity is known to be directly linked to a constant assumption of caffeine. Each Department can have one Coffee (also known as Life-Saver) Machine (also known as Dispenser), to be reffered to as Life-Saver Dispenser (LSD for short)

Approved by Marketing, Accounts, Research and Admin. +5 to E.Lite, +1 to Brendan, +1 to Sales.

Back again.

Could an admin unidle me?