@IPG: "Not to be unduly serious, but I sometimes wish meeting rooms came with a clock showing the amount money spent on a meeting by adding up the staff cost of everyone attending".
Scott sells via this web a "TIM" (Time Is Money) clock device, which your comment is a very straight description of.
And surely some bored meeting assistants had made plenty of 'Droid and iPhone Apps.
I noticed the coffee cup on the table - is that an office supply too? It also appears to be full of coffee as well - somebody's day is going to get REALLY interesting....
This has happened. I was in a Gov-Corp call center that made 54 work stations "stand only", so that we worked face to face down long counters. During this 8 month grand experiement, wadded up notes, paper clips, food, and other debris flew back and forth with the regularity of the Western Front.