My Muse

Let's see if I can do this story justice. Probably not. Georgia emailed us this morning livid, that her company had implemented the following: New policy effective 2/1/07: Junk food cessation program The email continued:

Effective 2/1/07, junk food will not be allowed inside or outside Company X's facilities.

Company X's new Health & Wellness initiative continues to take shape in an effort to improve the quality of life for employees and contain medical cost escalation that affects everyone.

The Corporation’s rising medical costs could reach as high as $1.5 billion annually by 2010 and some $3 billion by 2017, based on current projections. Those increases cannot be sustained by the company, which bears the lion’s share of the cost, or employees who continue to see their contributions steadily rising over the years. In short, we need to contain costs for all of us … but the pay-off is far greater if employees are healthier and have opportunities to better manage or avoid chronic conditions.

We understand this will be difficult. On 1/31/07, your HR representative, Georgia, will inspect your desk and collect all items that are determined to be junk food. The food collected will be donated to local food banks.

I told Georgia, no way is this legal, for real?! To which she finally answered:

Well actually it turns out it was a joke, based on the smoking cessation program we just rolled out. But it wasn't sent as a joke, and no one knew it was a joke, until the woman who sent it just got reamed out by the senior management.

Ahahahaha. Ahahhahahaha. Ahahahahaha. Let me catch my breath.