Exhelo:

Actually, in reality the forms most likely are due at 0900 on TUESDAY. The GS-6 who collects them likes to have them in by 0900 on Monday so that she can review them and then go to lunch at 1100 without worry or delay. And the Senior MSgt she provides them to likes to have them in by 1300 so he can review them all in time to go home at 1600 with no problem.

Ever hear the story of the Flypaper Effectivness Report? An NCO at a large Army base invented and started to send in such a report every week, after having gridded the mess hall he ran off into sectors and hung a piece of flypaper in each one. He would count the flys at the end of the week and provide the results in the report.

Nothing happened until after the third week, at which point the NCOs in charge of all the other mess halls on base all came rushing over to find out how to do the report. HQ had noted they were deficient in providing the reports and chewed them out. It all confirmed the NCO’s suspicions abut the Army.