This is Stevea Robbins.

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Meetings. I just love meetings.

No, no, I don't. I hate meetings.

There's nothing worse than a meeting.

Except a meeting where people show up late and the rest of us have to sit around

pretending that we don't hate each other while we wait. Europa, being the secret ruler of the

entire Eastern Bloc, is used to the privileges of power. She comes and goes as she pleases expecting

everyone around her to accommodate her whims. Now, she now works under cover as the manager of Bernice's Green Growing

Things plant store. But lately, Europa has been slipping back into her old habits. The management team

scheduled an 11 a.m. meeting to discuss a very important order. Dr. Moreau wants a hundred

Venus flytrap sent to his private island. The team needs to figure out how to make this happen.

Europa is the only team member who knows the ins and outs of shipping,

and she waltzes in 15 minutes late.

The team is not pleased.

Meetings cost money.

The team is upset that at Europa is wasting their precious irreplaceable time.

Bernice, owner of the store, is concerned that Europa is wasting their precious irreplaceable time. Bernice, owner of the store, is concerned that Europa is wasting precious money. If the staff were all on salary,

it wouldn't matter so much. We call salaried employees wage slaves because you can make them stay

late and the wasted time has to come out of their family and social life, not the

company's profits. But with hourly employees, efficiency matters. A 10-minute delay four times

a week adds up to a full week a year for every employee, and that's a lot of wasted pay.

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