re: #218 Aceofwhat?

so…there’s a productivity gain, and as a result, the employees are yelled at and told they’ll be sorry if they do it again?

not really - i’ll tell you a story: at one job management made a big fuss about its “continuous improvement initiative”. the message was clearly received that we needed to show that we enthusiastically embraced this initiative and would show concrete evidence of how we were working more efficiently

as a reward, some of us got $25 free lunch coupons at the nearest applebees. a friend of mine opened his desk drawer and showed me three of them and said, “yeah, i’ve been working so hard trying to improve my productivity that i haven’t had time to use them”