Eighty is Enough

Next to the washroom is one of those mail sorting compartments, where employees can pick up any mail, memos, or messages that come in for them. Our current compartment has forty slots. We have only 22 employees, and you even can subtract the eight supervisors, since we put their materials into their inboxes in their cubicles. Therefore, we have 14 slots used and 26 vacant.

The other day, I saw that either Worker Bee or Thing One had ordered and assembled not one, not two, but three new sorting compartments.* Each compartment has 36 slots. (I'll do the math for you.) That's 108 slots for 14 employees.

There must be a reason why someone wants more slots than we have and far more than we use. I'll have to wait to find out, though. Several days passed between the shipment of the sorters and their assembly. A few more days have passed since then, and they're just taking up space at the moment. Maybe I'll learn why we have them some time next week.

* The cartons called them "Literature Sorters", but the pictures don't show novels or even short story collections in the slots. Instead there was a piece of paper in each one (either red, green, yellow, or purple). I suppose there could be a poem on each paper.