[Everyone] Changes to biscuit policies

[Giles]

In these troubling economy, it's time that all of us tightening the
corporate belt a little, even if we're still financially perfectly
healthy and not in any way suffering and certainly not even close to
making any redundancies (in this quarter).

Consequently the Meeting Dialogue Committee has decided the following
new rules shall apply to beverage and snack requirements in all
meeting rooms (except those in Lothar's Apartment and the Fire
Station):

1. Standard meetings of less than 2 hours length (planned, not actual)
will not qualify for supplies of biscuits. Attendees may bring their
own biscuits, but the Room Diversity Team will not be responsible for
cleaning up any crumbs. Please remember this useful acronym: Snack And
Leave Crumbs? Vacuum Up Behind You! (SALCVUBY!)

2. Executive meetings (those involving Fellow Multi-Agency Associates
of level 2 or above) of less than 2 hours length (planned, not actual)
are allowed to book one (1) plate of plain biscuits (Rich Tea,
Digestive, or Ginger Snap). If there are not enough biscuits to go
round, clients and partners should be offered the plate BEFORE
Associates.

3. All meetings between 2 hours and 6 hours (planned, not actual) are
permitted one (1) plate of plain biscuits and one (1) plate of premium
biscuits (Bourbon, Custard Cream, Chocolate Digestive) for every 2.5
hour period or part thereof. Clients and partners must be offered the
premium plate first, but Associates are allowed to help themselves
directly from the plain plate if no clients/partners have expressed
any interest in the biscuits thereon.

4. All meetings over 6 hours (planned, not actual) are allowed two
(two) plates of plain biscuits and two (three) plates of premium
biscuits. If clients have requested the meeting, we can bill them for
it, so sandwiches, pizzas, fizzy drinks and Chinese takeaways can be
added. Please call Louise on reception to arrange delivery of
takeaways (planned and actual).

If you are booking a meeting room and unsure of the appropriate
biscuit policy, you can do any of the following:

- call a member of the Room Diversity Team on INTERNAL 651 (there is
no need to dial '9' before this)
- refer to the policy pages on the company wiky
- refer to the copies of the policy pages stored as PDFs in Lotus
Notes under Groupwide Interest/Resources/By Audience/UK Team/All
Floors/Meeting Rooms/Diversity
Team/Policies/Snacks/Biscuits/Policies/Revised/Recession09
- refer to the noticeboard behind the Prayer Vestibule on Level 8b

I trust that's all clear

Kind regards

Giles
Executive Account Executive (Level 2, Pending Level 1)