The unit of irritation is the irk. The unit of waffling is the waff. Expert wafflers produce high annoyance values measured in irks per waff. The density of annoyance values D(a) in a given office space is usally measured in terms or (irks/waff)* (number of command channels (Cn) ) * (# of PHBs) / (number of staff whose sanity index is > 50%). (where PHBs= number of Pointy-Headed Bosses). When the product of these calculations is divided into the number of square feet of office space, one gets the net sanity index for the company or department being measured.

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