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{{g}}The Jolly Contrarian’s [[fifth law of worker entropy]] states that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, ''t'', a worker spends on a task and its overall importance, ''i'', to the organisation. | {{g}}The Jolly Contrarian’s [[fifth law of worker entropy]] states that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, ''t'', a worker spends on a task and its overall importance, ''i'', to the organisation. | ||
===Examples=== | ===Examples=== | ||
*'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend no energy promoting actual risk | *'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], by way of putative apology celebrating the existence of one half (only) of the population, formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend exactly ''no'' energy promoting actual risk management or risk reduction. | ||
*'''[[Negotiation]]''': A [[negotiator]] will spend literally days battling away on the precise waterfall of dispute fallbacks for a [[NAV trigger]] — never to be used once the agreement is signed, except to periodically waive triggers that will have inevitably been set too sensitively — but will agree a [[failure to pay]] [[event of default]] — the one realistic event ever needed — without her counterparty so much as pausing to for breath before moving onto the next item. | *'''[[Negotiation]]''': A [[negotiator]] will spend literally days battling away on the precise waterfall of dispute fallbacks for a [[NAV trigger]] — never to be used once the agreement is signed, except to periodically waive triggers that will have inevitably been set too sensitively — but will agree a [[failure to pay]] [[event of default]] — the one realistic event ever needed — without her counterparty so much as pausing to for breath before moving onto the next item. | ||