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I am a proponent of AOP, but sometimes you see something that makes you do a triple take on your beliefs. Consider Aspect Oriented Management:

Managers can be designed to be unaware of the details of the teams they manage; teams are designed to be unaware of the management going on around them; specific points where peons and managers interact are definable independently of the peons and managers so that those points can be rearranged at will.

Is the coffee machine a pointcut?