gappy
Tuesday 29th April 2025 6:18pm
Oxford
2,735 posts
[Generic meeting room. 1 stands before white screen]
1: Ladies and gentlemen, as you know I've been doing some work streamlining your procedures and policies. My initial appraisal being over, my plan is to invite selected staff members in for meetings to discuss each individual document, which is why you're here today, as you are all well placed to review our first document, the Fire Safety Policy.
[Brings up front page of document on projector]
The policy's main aims are 1) to provide suitable fire safety equipment in all premises, 2) to adopt procedures allowing the safe and swift evacuation of staff and visitors, and 3) to try to stop employees starting fires. So, who can spot the flaw?
2: Is it that we should try a lot to stop employees starting fires?
1: Yes, that's good, well done. But even more pressing than that - what happens if there's a fire?
3: We all get out.
1: Right, and then?
2: The fire engines come?
1: Bingo. And what happens in between? [Pause and murmurs] This policy does not specify what we might cook if a fire breaks out.
3: Cook?
1: Of course! Efficiency, people! Why let a good conflagration go to waste? Crack out the marshamallows, cook tomorrow's lunch, dry the washing, anything.
2: But the policy is about fire prevention.
1: Yeah, sure, but let's be honest, fires are gonna happen, and when they do, maximise the potential. For example, don't you guys ever have any bodies you need to dispose of? [Awkward pause] Bodies? The corpses of enemies cluttering up the place, no? Nobody?
3: Not really.
1: Pity. Is that because you ate them?
2: What?
1: Feast on the flesh of the defeated foe, yeah, that's classic business practice. You get their abilities - it's like asset stripping, in a way. A tasty way. Anyway, next topic.
[Projected image changes to a typical Hammer image of a young woman in white on a stone altar, surrounded by cowled men]
1: How are you stocked for virgins?