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  • Essay / Daniel Orosco Executive Summary - 1522

    Companies have learned to deal with this problem by working around these quirks if employees can work well together, which makes people happy and increases workflow. But if a person disrupts this flow, by interrupting people's norms in the workplace, then they will suffer a loss. Oroczo says there are other behavioral habits that the company may not agree with, but which in specific situations may be accepted as the office norm. “It’s the refrigerator. You can put your lunch there. Barry Hacker, sitting over there, stealing food from that refrigerator. His petty thefts are an outlet for his grief. Last New Year's Eve, while kissing his wife, a blood vessel burst in his brain. Barry Hacker's wife was two months pregnant at the time and was in a coma for six months before she died. It was a tragic loss for Barry Hacker. Since then, he hasn't been himself. Barry Hacker's wife was a beautiful woman. She was also completely covered. Barry Hacker didn't have to pay a single cent. But his deceased wife haunts him. It haunts us all. We saw it, reflected on our computer screens, passing our desks. We saw the shadow of his face in our photocopies. She pencils in the receptionist's appointment book, with the words: To see Barry Hacker. She left messages in the receptionist's voicemail, messages garbled by electronic chirps and the buzz of the phone line, her voice echoing an immense distance in the ambient hum. But the voice is his. And beneath the voice, beneath the blast of the tide of static and hiss, we can hear the gurgles and cries of a baby. Either way, if you're bringing lunch, put a little something extra in the bag for Barry Hacker. We have four Barrys in this office. Isn't this a coincidence? (Oroczo 2011) In many companies this is reason enough to fire that employee Barry, most companies do not tolerate theft, but since