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Our new senior manager has introduced a new chart on the staff database for our team to record our holidays, flex days and training days on, she believing that we need an electronic record of who's going to be out of the office when instead of just the paper wallchart. On the chart, if we're out of the office on a given day we fill that day's box with a certain colour depending on what type of leave it is, while weekends and bank holidays are filled in in different colours. This morning Sue confessed that yesterday she'd managed to mix up all the colours, yet when Simon opened the chart just after, the right colours were back.

All was revealed when Ben came down to show Demelza and me how to fill the chart in : he'd corrected it yesterday afternoon. Demelza thought holidays ought to be represented by a 'less aggressive' colour than red. Sue suggested that perhaps red had been chosen to warn management 'Danger, there are people out of the office', while my theory was that they think people who are on official holiday are out painting the town red...