The £7 million guide to a tidy desk
Red tape has given way to black marker tape for thousands of bemused civil servants as part of a £7 million paperclip revolution aimed at ensuring that they keep the tools of their trade in the right place.Office workers have been given the tape to mark out where they should put their pens and pencils, their computer keyboards and to indicate where to place their phones.
“We had a situation in some offices in Scotland where staff were asked, ‘Is that banana on your desk active or inactive?’, meaning were they going to eat it? If not, it had to be cleared away.�
The scariest point in all this is that these kind of stories seem no longer out of the ordinary. The government seems to excel in finding pointless ways of spending money. It’s almost Lord Irvine’s wallpaper all over again, although seems ironic that wallpaper only cost £650K and black tape costs £7.4m.
tip: Times Online
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