Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Let's have a chat

If you asked us to name Tartarus's biggest problem our answer would be easy: communication. (Although the honest answer would be the Hutt. Still communication is a very close second.)

Everything in Tartarus is a secret. The Hutt and Shoes wouldn't tell us the name of our newest employee until her first day. They told us she had been a park ranger "for...a number of years." That is literally what we were told. Even her tenure at her last job was a secret.



Some time ago we all got a nasty email from the Hutt, proclaiming that some people were terrible and never hit "reply all" when answering email. This, we were told, was the source of all of our communication issues. We were instructed, from that point forward, to always cc the Hutt and Shoes and to always reply all. It was ridiculous. So, your friends Spoof and Speck lived by the exact letter of the law. We replied to every single email, if only just to say "I agree." 

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The email situation was supposed to help us communicate better. As you might have guessed, it didn't fix a thing. No one knows what's going on. Ever. 

Communication was even the theme of both of our employee evaluations this year. Spoof was called "a mystery." "All I know about what you're doing is what I hear from your coworkers," the Hutt said.

     translation - we work with tattletales

Speck was reminded "you work with more than just Spoof."

     translation - I'd like it better if you ignored Spoof like Opie does

The irony here - we actually do a better job of sharing important information than anyone else in Tartarus.

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