How Many Office Workers Does It Take...

[HawaiianShirts]

...to handle four pizzas?

We had a team lunch at work today. Four pizzas (employer-paid) and pot-luck sides. Great food. What baffled me, though, was the conversation. Some of my co-workers must have debated for a good 10-15 minutes about how to get the four pizzas up to our floor from the ground floor. They eventually decided to send three of us downstairs with a small rolling cart so we could bring them up in the elevator.

It's just four pizzas! I spent over two years delivering pizza for a living, and I remember carrying a stack of four or five or sometimes six large pies on one hand and two 2-liter sodas in the other, on multiple occasions, often while dodging dogs or trying not to slip on ice.

Fortunately, the co-worker who was sent to get the pizzas seemed to have the same thought I had. She carried all four by herself before anybody could be sent down to "help" her.

[EricKei]

This is why people in meetings never get anything useful done ^_^ They tend to...well. "overthink" may be the wrong word, so let's go with "overdo"

[raudf]

They wanted to be lazy, but forgot that to be lazy, you have to put the least amount of effort into a task as you possibly can. Hauling a cart around is more work than just trotting down, picking up the pizzas and carrying them up by hand. I'm rather surprised they didn't reinvent the dumb-waiter system

[wolfie]

I'm rather surprised they didn't reinvent the dumb-waiter system

If they're anything like the co-workers people keep posting about, they'd improve on that - and invent the absolutely-moronic-waiter system.

[MoonCat]

Some of my co-workers must have debated for a good 10-15 minutes about how to get the four pizzas up to our floor from the ground floor. They eventually decided to send three of us downstairs with a small rolling cart so we could bring them up in the elevator.

Management material

[HawaiianShirts]

Hauling a cart around is more work than just trotting down, picking up the pizzas and carrying them up by hand.

It's almost like forced laziness. I've lost track of the times I've carried a box of printer paper (you know, the five-pack of five-hundred-sheet packages) up two flights of stairs only to have co-workers gawk at me as if I'm He-Man. They'll express concern about my back (it's fine), remind me that we have carts and hand-trucks, and question my sanity when I insist that I am capable of carrying a box of paper.

Management material

If this was my old retail job, I'd agree with you in an instant.