OMB

I have one degree in Archaeology, one in GIS and I’ve worked for all manner of people; from being a Pizza deilvery boy, to surveying, from academic research to web-development. All and none of this makes me well qualified to talk about management - as well qualified as anyone can ever be. So after a brief experience this morning, I have developed The Law of Relative Biro Value

Assume:

• R = Risk, expressed as a percentage of a working stealing or misusing a pen
• P = Cost of a pen
• S = Cost of the pen guardian’s time
• W = Cost of workers time in obtaining a pen
• Tw = Time in seconds taken by a worker to retrieve a pen
• Ts = Time in seconds taken by the pen guardian to retrieve the pen
• M = The wage per second of each party

Consider,

S = Ts * Ms
W = Tw * Mw

If RP < S + W
then

DONT LOCK THE STATIONARY CUPBOARD!!


If you need to lock your cupboard, either your pens are too expensive or you workers are not trustworthy enough.

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