What's the purpose? Is it for communicating? or a signed document?
Maybe the clay composition, the process of firing it and the final product serve as the signature of the company? Also tile can't be burnt while paper can be. Interesting idea.
It's amusing to think this was that company's loser boss version of firing by voicemail. New load of tile, you put all the tile on the roof, hey there's one extra, hey there's writing on it, aw what the hell!!?
I'm reminded of the Kids in the Hall sketch where a boss calls his underling in for a superficially normal work meeting, puts his feet up on the desk, and "You're" "Fired" is written on the bottom of his shoes, sending hints until the employee quits.
Maybe the clay composition, the process of firing it and the final product serve as the signature of the company? Also tile can't be burnt while paper can be. Interesting idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJtBaj5dXfU
Not to mention firing John Lewis. It does have some consistency to it.
"Psst, pass this tile up to that useless so and so John..." or "Hey, John, there's one tile left over, you can have it."
fun fact: this is the origin of being 'let go' coming to be known as "getting fired"
> The sense of "sack, dismiss from employment" is recorded by 1877 (with out; 1879 alone) in American English.
> Research had found a firm called Thomas Austin Brick & Tile Makers, based at Clay Hills, Stoke-on-Trent in 1820