When the accounts receivable staff at Cleveland ad agency Trolcott/Phelp was having difficulty formatting the revision of Receipt Form 523(c)1, department head Gene Watson instructed analysts Sally Evanston and Ginger McDougall to put their heads together and come up with a solution.
They did as instructed, and within three hours addendum 41(2)b was introduced to great acclaim. Watson was so pleased that he instructed the two keep their heads together until they developed at least ten additional addendum.
That process took three more days, and now McDougall and Evanston can’t get their heads back apart.
“We’ve consulted a number of different doctors,” says Evanston, “but other than one of them telling us to try prune oil, nothing so far has worked and it’s getting tougher and tougher.”
”Luckily we get along pretty well,” says McDougall. This is essential, of course, because the two must obviously spend 24 hours a day together – managing not only work projects but also eating, bathing, sleeping and dressing.
“And forget about dating!” says the recently divorced Evanston.
Dr. Halley Sellson, an expert on workplace directives at the Taladon Institute, believes the two should consider legal action.
“When a superior issues an order it is incumbent upon them to be aware of potential consequences,” she says. “Forcing heads together for extended periods of time is never going end well.”
