Behold! Efficiency!

We at LogicMaze are always interested in finding new ways to make our operations here more efficient, if even a little bit. A countless number of steps have been taken on a countless number of occasions to change the basic routine to make things go a little bit more efficiently.

I’d hate to sound like the jerk taking all of the credit for it, but. . .well. . .I’m sort of a guru on that sort of thing. I think that my latest idea is going to be the end-all be-all of great strides toward maximum efficiency:

Installing a pneumatic tube system!

Ok, I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t know for sure who in the office first suggested the idea. I can’t handle the guilt of taking the credit. We’ve actually been kicking this idea around for some time. I think that it’s actually an adaptation of Cody’s idea to hardline the coffee from the pot in my office directly to his office, to which I explained that the maintenance and cleaning of the line might prove a grueling and disgusting task. Good idea though.

Back to the actual tube system.

Here’s a common scenario here at the office as illustrated by an instant message transcript:

1:08 PM Scott – Hey, do you have the folder for {name omitted to protect the innocent}?
1:08 PM Mitchell the Coolest – I don’t know, let me look.
3:51 PM Scott – ?
3:51 PM Mitchell the Coolest – ?

3:52 PM Scott – Dude, I asked you if you had that folder like three hours ago. What gives?

3:53 PM Mitchell the Coolest – Who says “what gives?” these days?

3:53 PM Scott – Do you have A.D.D or something?

3:54 PM Mitchell the Coolest – So?

As you can see, the file system can be somewhat of a hassle. The folder could be in a number of places like my office, Cody’s office, Tamara’s office or, sometimes, the file cabinet in Tamara’s office.

That’s the beauty of the pneumatic tube system! Regardless of the location of the folder of interest, it can easily be transferred from one person’s possession to the next by doing little more than putting it in the tube and pressing a button. No more getting up and walking to things. Who needs that?

In an effort to really drive this idea home, I went ahead and drew out a diagram of the convenience to come. I was reluctant to draw this out, though, since I’m kind of a really good drawer, and now everybody around the office is going to be asking me to draw stuff for them. I don’t like all that pressure.