Fifth law of worker entropy: Difference between revisions

{{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.

*'''[[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 managemenbt 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.

*[[First law of worker entropy]]

*[[Fourth law of worker entropy]]