Cool Hand Luke Character Analysis

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The job I had accepted assumed directorship of a 50-man comprehensive information technology department with a history of perennially poor management, incoherent staff development, technologies, internal policies and procedures. However, no sooner than concluding the first day on the job, the chief operating officer had apparently gone snooping around my office only to discover an inadvertent disregard for one of their key rules - all desks must be clean before leaving. Had I been informed? Absolutely. The now infamous line delivered from the Captain (Strother Martin) to Luke (Paul Newman) in the movie Cool Hand Luke probably summarizes it best when he said, "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
My interpretation as an IT professional,

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