My Life is a Dilbert Cartoon

I spent the last hour and a half or so taking tickets for an event that had no tickets issued for it.

Yep, I sat there because I was assigned to take tickets even though there WERE NO TICKETS.

How does something like that happen you ask?  Well, the work assignments for the annual meeting are drawn up every ten years and assigned by job title.  So, as Assistant Membership Director, I collect tickets.  As it happens the decision was made to quit printing tickets seven years ago, but that minor detail hasn't affected the duty roster yet.  Why?  Because they only rewrite and reassign jobs for the annual meeting every ten years because (as my boss said when I asked her about it) "that's the way it's always been done."

*blinks*

Gotta love corporate logic.

It's Tradition

Title: It's Tradition
Pairing/Warning/Rating: None, set pre-series, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Gwen learns a lesson about the things we do in the name of tradition
Author's Note: Unfortunately, this is based on real life, as I spent several hours doing exactly the same thing today.  Written for the  tw100 challenge:  Life Before Torchwood

( a.k.a when to accept the insanity of life around you )