The Omelette Syndrome

As an MBA I am required to support whatever I say with hard statistics and damning evidence. But let me admit that I do not have any statistics about the particular disorder which I am planning to describe here. I do not know whether and if any people (apart from me that is) suffer from what I call as the "Omelette syndrome". I was not aware that I was suffering from this disease for the past 27 years until I experienced it in a very tangible way very recently. This is what happened ( and every part of the story is true):

I reach my office all excited with the thought of playing spider solitaire and free cell all day and enter the canteen for breakfast. From the cash counter I buy a coupon for a double omelette. Taking the coupon to the serving couter I find out that there is no person to take my order. After a couple of minutes a guy finally appears at the scene and collects my coupon only to inform me that they are currently out of eggs and will have to wait for while for the eggs to arrive. Hell bent on having nothing but an omellete I decide to wait ( the first symptom of the omlette syndrome!!). After about 5 minutes I see a guy walking in the kitchen with a crate of eggs. However, even 10 mins after I still dont see any of the raw material being converted to finished goods! Having enquired what the bottleneck was (I am sorry but I am taught not to go for more than 10 sentences without a jargon!!) I am told that they are out of gas!! ( I was hoping to catch some marketing guy near by to solve the problem but could not find one!!). So I wait again for the gas cylinder to arrive which makes it entry after another 10 minutes! Finally my omelette production get underway. Even 5 minutes after the omlette production I still see it sitting on the pan rather than making its way towards me: The reason for the delay - They are out of bread!!! Another 10 minutes wait brings the bread to the kitchen. And yes, you guessed it right, I still cant have omelette. This time the reason being - They are out of plates. After another 5 mins - Now that they have the eggs, the gas, the bread and the plates I finally see the omelette coming towards me. But alas...as soon as it is placed on the counter someone else from the crowd takes it and I start my wait for the next omelette!!

So, this is the omlette syndrome which I suffer from, and its not just limited to breakfast!

No matter how long the wait is, no matter what it takes,one thing is for certain, I will not change my order, I will wait for my omelette!!