Base10 has been slacking off in the blogging department for the last couple of days. It is, alas, the busy season for Base10 this time of year. He is working like a hamster in a Habitrail--wait, strike that. Base10 has decided to adopt a new persona: the staffing monkey. One of Base10 does is personnel allocation. He is convinced that this job could just as easily be performed by a trained monkey. (Sort of like that Monster.com commercial). So if some personnel decisions were being contemplated, people would say, "Let's run that by the staffing monkey." The monkey would manipulate his spreadsheets, howl a bit and come up with an answer.

In a way, the monkey would solve some staffing dilemmas. The personnel "pie" as it were is only so big. When one unit is expanded it is at the expense of another unit. As a result, there are always unhappy campers in this process. With a staffing monkey, anyone who complains about the size of his particular slice of the pie would be sent to the monkey for an explanation. The monkey would then hurl feces at the complainer (and perhaps howl a bit more).

Fear the monkey!

Anyway, more blogging after work.

- posted by Base10 @ 4:49 PM