Several hours of Tuesday's meeting, spanning the lunch hour, were "spent" hashing, rehashing, and attempting to bring to fruition a bright "new" idea proposed by a group of bosses.

No one, literally no one, thought this idea was good, much less worth the many hours wasted upon it. But most of our objections were summarily dismissed by the representative of the bosses group as "narrow-minded", "fixated on the past", and in need of "a paradigm shift".

In three different, earlier, one on one conversations, including one with the boss promoting this "new concept", the words I used to describe it were "fucking stupid".

If you had any clue at all how our outfit does its work, and is thereby admired and the envy of almost if not all the rest of the Western States, you could see in less than 15 seconds that A) this idea won't work, and B) even if it did work, it would be a bad idea. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

After almost four hours of detailed review and almost civil arguments, the representative boss finally conceded their idea simply would not work.

Most of us had enjoyed the local Chinese buffet for lunch, and one fellow passed his fortune cookie slip up to the chagrined boss:

"Never trouble trouble unless trouble troubles you."

The boss stuck the fortune onto the map of our failed efforts, to be passed on to the rest of his team.

We can only hope they pay heed to its advice.