Why are you the only one wearing differnt slippers?n

Arnon

"What happens in Sils-Maria, stays in Sils-Maria.."

Who's that beautiful girl on the left and the righter left?

Arnon

Laura happened to notice that you have a clean towel.

Sander

The details stay in Sils-maria.

Oscar

Surprised? Arnon is a clean boy.

Arnon

You are right. The orgies were no small detail...

Oscar

Call me a prude, but I like to take a shower after an orgy.

It's a short girl only orgy. How sweet.

No comment (out of sheer jealousy).
(I thought ‘the intern that beat you’ in the swimming competition was ‘a man’...)
By the way, happy to hear from Oscar again.

Bernard

I was in Belgium in December and would have liked to have a beer with you.

@Oscar
Hé, very nice!

A true orgy by the way: succeeds only once.

Arnon, can I ask before this topic is closed, what your employees are tasked with besides a yearly train tour of Switserland culminating in an Alpine orgy? I am considering becoming a best selling writer myself, and would like to get the practicalities out of the way first. I don't know if I could cope with managing such a sizeable workforce, but maybe it will look less daunting once I know what I would tell my future employees to busy themselves with during office hours. I think I'll start writing their job descriptions this coming weekend. So if you are willing to help me out a little, a simple organigram with job titles and main responsibility would be much appreciated.

Philip

I have employees to answer questions like this.
If you are lucky one of them will respond to your inquiry.

Arnon

Maybe I won't become a best selling writer after all. This sounds much like working in a bank or government agency. Would you say that being - and staying- a well published writer is not unlike running a business of government bureaucracy? How many people would have to be involved to create a bureaucracy? Will six do?

Philip

FYI I don’t run a bureaucracy.

My workers are autonomous Nobody told them to ignore you, they came to this conclusion independently.

Arnon

Well, looking on the bright side, at least one of my questions got answered indirectly, by the boss himself no less. Certainly not a sign of a true bureaucracy. I suppose that comes as a relief. More worryingly though, it seems you don't need six people plus a leader of some sorts to create a bureacracy. Rather, it looks like one person will do. That is of course assuming that your employees' reluctance to respond to my question is not an orchestrated, collective decision. In a bureaucracy things are probably more quietly assumed rather than openly discussed and decided. Quite innocently, it could be a matter of each employee expecting his colleagues to jump into action. If everybody assumes this individually, you are still faced with a bureacracy. I may in fact be a bureaucrat and a bureaucracy rolled into one. And so may you, Arnon.

Philip ...

I'd recommend Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello

Mr. Powells

Thanks for the recommendation, I will certainly look into it. (Hmm, even this sounds somewhat bureaucratic now)