In 1980 (or thereabout), a government agency studied video display terminals, focusing on radiation, industrial hygiene, health complaints, and ergonomics. The study found no significant health hazards existed. It suggested that employees could be made more comfortable (and presumably more productive) if employers paid greater attention to the lighting and seating arrangements of workstations.
I routed the findings of the study to
my staff via e-mail, with a tongue-in-cheek note that read: "Bio-technically speaking, it's
comforting to know the Fed's have OK’d VDT's. I hope you are all working
diligently to protect our employees from the ill effects noted in the report."
One
response came back:
"Your
energetic examination and your enigmatic and esoteric ergonomic evaluation
elated an otherwise ebony era in my existence. I eagerly eschew ensconcing
employees in any but an ergonomically engineered environment envisioned to
elicit ecstatic and ebullient exclamations of excitement. Your erudition in
extricating eclectic essays essential to ensconce your employees entirely in
equable environs is enviable.
Let's
effect it.
Effluently
yours,
Tom
Keleher."
This exquisite response exhausted me.
Instead of a bonus, I gave him an E
for effort.
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