in fact that has to do with a very serious problem the grains of sand in this hour glass of been carefully monitored ten minutes the length of a coffee break the problem well it seems like somebody's ball just don't know how to tell time and the carting the boss it's costing the company thousands of dollars every year now now don't get me wrong i like company in fact i'd be out on a break right vika small bang to get upset about but it's pretty big when it comes to dollars and cents you'd be surprised mike i was in the boss's office the extent of the problem as pointed out by the fact that today more than seven out of ten workers are taking the coffee breaks as compared with only half this number ten years ago others know that the hot cup of coffee enjoyed by about twenty seven million americans is costing industry more than a billion dollars annually us you're really serious about this aren't you for not a big operation four hundred people on the payroll even so i'd bet my bottom but the coffee break is costing as at least thirty thousand dollars a year and right thirty thousand dollars all it has to happen and it does happen is for half of our people to take an extra ten minutes to figure out a daily loss of one hundred  thirty dollars multiplied by two hundred forty two working days and they gone figure it out thirty thousand dollars ok but what can we do about it a coffee break is almost an american institution you can just call  well now there's more to this and you're going to say that again a lot more for the past two weeks i've studied the coffee break but there are people now that ten minutes starts when they get their hands on the cup of coffee what happens before and after is a matter of small concern to them that i that's the way it stacked somebody earlier today first thing you know they're all gone when clowns almost everybody at least a coffee break starts five ten minutes i had a tarot maybe they do time as a way of getting away from us i was minutes of mean nothing the employee cost this organization a lot of my own that you're the boss who will do whatever you say however i do think that there's a danger of losing side of the workers viewpoint that never gets done that clock on the wall at the magic hours of ten three is a kid momentary freedom and he needs that freedom joe that's ridiculous you're overplaying it we ought to conform to rules and regulation stand for something take it away and it suddenly becomes very important the law is going to raise beggar and more costly problems i'm not asking that it be taken away all i'm asking is that they take their ten minutes i want to go at that it was something for nothing right away the boss was a great guy but it wasn't long until coffee gets worse every day speaking of problems the company sponsored coffee break has a few of its own but getting back to this matter of apple time i'd be more lenient in my thinking if the abuse did them from having to wait for serv into each other like a bunch of all women on the other hand ours can be a place where business is transacted it can be a period for goofing off but it can be a good time when your people get to know each other that's good don't you work better with people you know if you're working around a stranger you spend a lot of time trying to decide where you're aware they are far and i'll say that but now let's consider one of my pet peeves when of course they all have to stop buying a powder ten minutes gone with a cigarette and putting on a new face harry's diner on the altar it's all a saying you never know who might be there and talk about the grapevine rather this is one of the original seeds are planted another complaint is that all too often the few that fear each other get in their own little circle and other people are left out and where do they go on the way back to the office you get to the powder room again and all our readiness procedures in the compass little adjustments known only to a woman for the first stab at our own disguise your hero and do i detect a bit of personal prejudice to a degree perhaps but there's a lot of truth in what i've said to certain people take from thirty to forty five minutes for a coffee break i can remedy that not john they're good workers otherwise that i had their names long before this no there has to be another solution this is human nature and you're the expert so i'm giving you the problem and i'm expecting a solution out now you may have an educational problem with yours but one way or another i want our people to realize management side of problem the dollars and cents that you hire people must be taught not to take advantage of a situation that just grew li know you're seeing one of those before but this one special target or instead of an hour this one measures ten minutes the theoretical length of time of one of our coffee breaks