The Transporter Couch

In a company I worked for, it was a common and open practice that if you didn’t want to deal with something, you found out who was on vacation, put a routing slip on a memo, and ask for the vacationer’s opinion. People actually advised me to do this.

I came back from three weeks vacation once, and there wasn’t a horizontal surface in my cube that didn’t have a folder or book with a routing slip on it. I got a couple of boxes, filled them up, and routed them to my supervisor (who was on a long weekend), asking him to prioritize the tasks.