paper-pushing

[cellio]

I've just learned that my (physical) "out" box has a built-in router. The specific case here is expense reports. My manager doesn't know who processes them either, but apparently we don't need to. I just put the report in my outbox and the office daemons take it from there. Or something like that.

I assume that there are some types of traffic that the router doesn't know how to handle, but that's what the "in" box is for.

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[dvarin.livejournal.com]

I once asked whether if I just put some random thing in my outbox and stuck a post-it on it with someone's name, whether it would spontaneously appear in that person's inbox.
The was "yes", but I've never had any reason to do that rather than just walking over and dropping the thing in the person's inbox myself.

My expense reports go [Me]-[Project Manager]-[COO]-[Some Accounting Guy]. I did a tracert on one one time.