Applying weight...

Supervisors are funny. They know they are important, we all know that they are very important.... Well.. :-) Lets leave the game of importance to the ones who believe in them.
Yesterday, I was sprinting down to the 4th floor. I heard a manager barking to the team at the coffee vending machine. Hmmmm, did I say coffee vending machine, yes, we have these fancy coffee makers that encourage us to use caffeine as a means to sustain our rapidly failing metabolic system.. to possibly contain our atrophy to doom. Coming back to the manager, he said, "We need to press them for it, yes, put pressure on them to comply, there is not way this cannot be done". The team nodding their sagging heads in mute agreement.. You know straight from the horses mouth to the fatigued psyche of the team members. With each sentence, the nodding un unision increased, until it reached a frenzied pace and all I all that my retina could reflect is a 5 heads moving in tandem with each other. It seemed like they had had a bout of hypnopaedic session the night before. I looked at them in absolute surprise. I had a mind to ask the guys, what they wanted to push. The sentences continued to be volleyed at a rate of 1 per coffee sip, each one with renewed vigor.. "How can they do this", "Does the IT know about it", "How is that we were not informed"(ya rite.. you are the LORD OF THE RINGS and your team members are the 7 dwarfs!! Self importance... is a funny thing), " I am going to approach the management with this issue", Go on, the management is only there to solve your problems. But the catcher was, ' We must apply weight on them '.. Ya rite, you and your team should go and sit on them...They will definitely buckle under pressure!!