Why invite everyone if your phone is the guest of honour?

Somebody insisted everyone attend, then spent the meeting scrolling through a glowing rectangle under the table.

Why this tiny offence gets expensive

If the meeting matters, attention matters. If it does not, congratulations: you have accidentally proven the meeting should have been cancelled.

Workplace nonsense becomes especially irritating because the calendar, hierarchy and job description give ordinary annoyances the confidence of official policy.

The completely unofficial accounting view

Petty Invoice values the offence at €15.00. The calculation is not economics, law or accounting; it is the ancient discipline of turning irritation into a number with two decimal places.

The charge description reads: Disinterest fee for requiring attendance and then demonstrating that the glowing rectangle is more important.

Recommended administrative response

Either way, the disinterest fee is administratively elegant.

The point is the contrast: a familiar little annoyance gets treated with the solemn paperwork of a finance department. The more disproportionate the bureaucracy, the better the joke.