Something Must Be Done

When faced with a problem, a strategy we accuse PointyHairedBoss(s) of following:

• SomethingMustBeDone.
• Here's Something.
• So lets do it.

Examples of Somethings: hire more coders (when the project is in time trouble), rewrite everything in java, hold a workshop, avoid eye contact with the customer. Add Somethings you've seen below, it beats banging your head on the wall.

• make it harder to delete stuff from wiki yes! in fact we should make it much more socially acceptable - has anybody bothered to comment yet on RefactorFasterDeleteMore?
• cancel all project-related travel or
• let's fly everyone to Phoenix for a week
• let's waste our lives writing stupid documentation!
• "Everyone stop working! We need to have a bunch of really long time-consuming meetings about our lack of adequate progress." (Actually, this can be a very healthy response, if done properly.)
• "Work smarter, not harder," words to live by from the second most clueless manager I have ever worked for

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This also happens in democracies: There ought to be a law.