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A Modest Proposal

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It has come to my attention that the recent cuts to the funding of public education has led to majority of our staff trying to selling chocolates, Magazine or Garbage bags for their children’s school fundraising but this has unfortunately led to serious complaints as customers and other stakeholders feel that they are not getting full attention from our employees. I believe it is a great cause but customer satisfaction is our top priority so we cannot compromise our quality of work for fundraising activities. I recommend that starting tomorrow everybody can cooperate and focus on work during working hours and move the fundraising activities during lunch hours and break times. According to research done by Harvard, Focusing completely at one

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