[Everyone] Re: Pretend Time

[Phil]

Hi all,

Giles, I'm afraid you missed this meeting as we held it last week (real time) during the period while we were "beta testing" Pretend Time.

I assume you have received the outcomes of this meeting and you have in the past agreed to their implications. Thankyou for agreeing and I know everyone appreciates your forebearance in these delicate matters.

Thankyou.


On 11 May, 2011, at 14:26, Cat wrote:

> Giles - we're already into the middle of next week.
> 
> From: Giles 
> To: Everyone in the office 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 14:14:25
> Subject: [Everyone] Re: Pretend Time
> 
> In that case, I believe it is already tomorrow morning and time for
> our weekly ALL HANDS meeting in Lady Gaga. Please make your way to
> Lady Gaga immediately, and bring your copies of the agenda. The
> meeting should only take one Pretend Hour, so will therefore be
> finished before "Windows requires a driver to connect to this device"
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Giles
> Client-Vision Liaison Officer (Solutions)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 May 2011 14:05, Cat  wrote:
> > Could someone from Facilities come and help us up in legal. Our pretend time
> > clock is now spinning relentlessly forward and we can't find a way to stop
> > it.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Giles 
> > To: Everyone in the office 
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 13:56:35
> > Subject: [Everyone] Re: Pretend Time
> >
> > I'm confused. If a client requests a budget re-orientation meeting at
> > 10am, what is that in Pretend Time?
> >
> > Also, how do Billable Hours relate to Pretend Hours? Are we working
> > real hours and converting them to Pretend Time hours for billing
> > purposes, or working Pretend Time hours and billing in real and/or
> > Pretend hours?
> >
> > According to the Pretend Time clock that Dave from Facilities has just
> > erected here, the current time is "Windows could not connect to this
> > device".
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Giles
> > Client-Vision Liaison Officer (Solutions)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11 May 2011 13:21, Anno  wrote:
> >> Dear Colleagues
> >>
> >> As you may have noticed our time and motion partners Time Machine have
> >> been working with a number of departments over the last couple of
> >> months to give us insight into areas for increased process efficiency
> >> within the Pretend family.
> >>
> >> Before the delivery of the final report we have agreed to trial a
> >> couple of their headline suggestions. One of their preliminary
> >> findings is that while we in Pretend have a strong sense of time, if
> >> that time could be accelerated then productivity could be increased by
> >> up to 17% (department and activity dependant). This accelerated
> >> business time would be known as PretendTime and be yet another example
> >> of how we in Pretend are, quite literally, ahead of our competition.
> >>
> >> As a prototype to address embedding PretendTime we shall be installing
> >> metronomes on floors 2, 3, 17 and mezzanine 5 on Campus Too and in the
> >> whole of the Claire Baldwin building. These spaces will also be issued
> >> with new clocks and your computers will be reformatted to include the
> >> new "Pretend Hour" that the accelerated time will allow us all. The
> >> canteens in RedZone will also be metronomed and clock changed but not
> >> the cafe and breakout area in Zulu Dawn. The whole of the IT
> >> department, regardless of location will also be working to
> >> PretendTime.
> >>
> >> It is advised that if you are working cross-site that you ensure that
> >> you are meeting and working to the new time schema to avoid confusion.
> >> To help us assess the impact of PretendTime monitors will be reporting
> >> on these and non-pretendtime areas. Please make them feel welcome.
> >>
> >> Anno
> >>
> >> Anno MCIP TeT Blake7
> >> Senior Executive Director: Directions
> >> Move/Change
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