Tidy Minds

Things still being found on hard drives, this one about the "5S" regime, as with most things, you would really have had to be there...

The group responsibilities include:

Ensure that the group is working with only necessary items, all unnecessary items are to be removed. The unnecessary items can easily be identified as they are the items that are not in fact necessary for the minute by minute essential clean up of the work surfaces.

Ensure there are no items under desks, this includes boxes, binders, coats, feet, rodent bait, flooring, sub-flooring, concrete joists and the like. However, necessary items, such as cleaning apparatus for the essential minute by minute clean up of the essential items that are under the desk is allowed according to paragraph 7, subsection 4b of the Happy-S code.

3 minute clean up to be done every 6 minutes. This gives the user the correct amount of time to e-mail everyone that they have in fact done their 3 minute clean up.

Binders to be properly labeled and placed in order of frequency, 1ghz, 2ghz, 3ghz etc.

If the group encounters anything loose, make sure that they tape it down firmly, or preferably use strong two-part epoxy to ensure that it never moves again.

The contagion is spreading!


Remember the Happy-S club song :

We will clean whatever has got dirty,
We will tape all things that have dropped down,
There are times that we will all get shirty,
but we’ll do our tasks without a frown,

We will hide our sandwich in our trousers,
We will send our coats to Timbuk too,
We’ll all be quiet like little mouses,
and things that move we’ll stick with glue.

Though you’ll never see our dirty tea-mugs,
or find the box that holds S-312,
We’ll be friendly with all those binder thugs,
as we know that we are like that too,

Dicky Evans is our fearless leader,
and all his clean ideas are simply tops,
We will welcome 5S to our homeland,
and will rule with iron fists and mops.

We will burn the books that make us naughty,
and we’ll rewrite things that make us sad,
We will stick to primary, basic colors,
as we know that gaudy makes Dick mad,

And when the clouds of dust have settled,
and all our dreams have finally come true,
We will shine with all the light we’re given,
and we know our Dick will shine bright too.


[chorus]
We will clean as we go,
make our desks white as snow,
and with this we will know.....

Good Heavens, Good Evans!
We’ve found our will to live,
Good Heavens!, Good Evans!
There’s so much more to give.