Irony Does Live

Ironic laugh: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Problem that got The Cube suspended for a week still exists. While the Cube was on enforced, unpaid "vacation," however, things happened . . . .

The Veep who didn't want to hear The Cube quoting the company's lawyer gathered fellow Veeps around (circling the wagons protectively) and they spent a week strategizing, came up with an action plan that totally blew The Cube's advice out of the water, and were all set to enact it ---

Then, fortunately, one meek little clerical forwarded a copy of their plan to the company lawyer. "I thought this was routine," she said honestly. (As it is, most times, except when Veeps are trying to be clever.)

The lawyer blew up!

"What do you think you are DOING?!?" he called in on a conference call almost immediately. "This will land you up the wazzoo in a lawsuit and it's exactly what I've been telling you you CAN'T do for the past two years!"

Hmmm.

So, as The Cube returns and is pointedly excluded from the next steps in working on this situation, the problem still exists, the fellow Veeps have all stepped back from it, disingenuously saying that "We were only offering our 2 cents worth, nothing concrete, it's yours to handle," and the original Veep has gone on a two week fact-finding tour of our offshore factories.

It is understood that there will be an Executive Policy meeting to review The Problem. Next month. Maybe the month after. Maybe The Problem will go away or, if it doesn't, maybe we can pretend it doesn't exist.