Zero for Cherry

Coca Cola head office, department of Quality Control.

Junior colleague: Jack, do we still use cerasumine as an ingredient for Cherry Coke?

Jackdaw: I guess so, but I'm specialised in Classic Coke, and also Coke Zero lately. Stephen is our Cherry Coke specialist. You could give him a call; he's working at home today.

Junior colleague: Hi Stephen, I've got a short question. Do we still use cerasumine as an ingredient for Cherry Coke?

Stephen: Yes, certainly, that's never changed.

Junior colleague: Okay, thanks. Bye.

Stephen: Not so fast...

Junior colleague: Huh?

Stephen: Who wants to know? This is common knowledge in both our team and the Recipes department...

Junior colleague: Oh, just someone from Pepsi.

Stephen: You're not supposed to share that with anyone but our department and the guys from Recipes: it's highly classified information.

Junior colleague: Oh, okay. I didn't know that.


Change a few proper nouns, and I just witnessed this.

The junior colleague in question has been working within our team for over a year now. He should be happy that only Stephen and I caught his utterly foolish move, because we will keep our mouths shut. Norm is his immediate supervisor, and I'm sure that if he heard about his, he'd wouldn't shut up about it, and would probably get the guy fired.