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[[Confusion entropy]] is the background level of misunderstanding and resentment which comes as a by-product of modern corporate discourse.


Different types of activity generate more or less of this kind of entropy. [[Conference call]]s — especially [[all-hands conference call]]s — generate dangerously high levels.  Add financial reporting folk seeking legal opinions on matters of [[balance sheet]] treatment, allow [[tax lawyer|tax lawyers]] to converse directly with anyone else on this topic and [[infinite bafflement]] is assured.
There is no formula for when or where this might happen because at that moment the [[JC]] was trying to make one up<ref>You do realise everything on this wiki is just made up on the spot, don’t you?</ref> he was [[Conference call ambush|ambushed]] with an ambiguous request for [[KPI]]s by an officious [[management consultant]]. He pretended to be having [[Skype trouble]] but lost his train of thought and never quite recovered it.
 
The [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s [[second law of worker entropy]] states that [[confusion entropy]] will eventually lead to the [[boredom heat death]] of the universe. There is no formula for when or where this might happen because at that moment the [[Jolly Contrarian]] was trying to make one up — you realise this is all just made up on the spot, don’t you?<ref>He was ambushed with an ambiguous request for [[KPI]]s by an officious [[management consultant]]. He pretended to be having [[Skype trouble]] but lost his train of thought and never quite recovered it. Story of his life, really. </ref>


[[Confusion entropy]] can be cured with [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption|alcohol]], but there is a curious [[paradox]], as overdoing the sauce (which, on a [[conference call]], can be tremendously tempting) can itself lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.
[[Confusion entropy]] can be cured with [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption|alcohol]], but there is a curious [[paradox]], as overdoing the sauce (which, on a [[conference call]], can be tremendously tempting) can itself lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.
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So it’s either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of [[space-time]], or regressing to a sunless, tepid expanse having, in every direction except the one you want to go in, an infinite extension of [[ennui]].
So it’s either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of [[space-time]], or regressing to a sunless, tepid expanse having, in every direction except the one you want to go in, an infinite extension of [[ennui]].


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*[[Entropy]]
*[[Laws of worker entropy]]  
*[[First law of worker entropy]]
*[[Second law of worker entropy]]  
*[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]]
*[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]]


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