God help me, I've done it.

[Doc]

Just wondering about Doc's employee turnover rate. 'No mistakes' may help keep efficiency high, but everyone is bound to screw up sooner or later. That or they burn out and get fired because of it. Or hey, less efficient workers get bullied out by the others and everyone else ends up scared of being the next target. And in the end, someone is bound to shoot himself.

This may work for a charity, because people want to work there for other reasons than just the pay and may be more willing to put up with a 'pointy-haired' boss like Doc. I wonder if it would be ideal for a 'normal' business.

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Of course, the whole point of capitalism is to squeeze out one's workers under the threat of unemployment, homelessness and starvation. Ergo, two thirds of all adult Americans has been under psychiatric treatment at some point.

That said, Doc runs a charity so all is forgiven. Others, Roland: be tough on your employees, but don't kill them. Unless you are teetering on the break-even point, you don't have to make the world a worse place to stay in business.

I dunno, but to these left-sided European ears some of Doc's tricks sound like training dolphins. Which is all right if the pay is as good as Doc says it is, but in practice these tactics are often used on those on the lower end of the payscale, those working two jobs for minimum wages and/or living in a trailer park. The Nike ideology.

I find it funny that these people play computer games to get away from real life and end up grouped and best friends with the people who are the reason they need to get away from real life in the first place.

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I'd almost forget: congratulations, Roland. Now you can write your own rules instead of being subject to them, and you can be God. Just stay in business, and you've got your life licked. You are one of the lucky few. I envy you. :w00t:
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Nobody has been fired since the Butterball Fiasco at xmas time.

Don't ask.

Turnover is at an all time low. The weak spineless incompetents have been weeded out.

Oh, and the Dilbert pointy hair bit is pretty funny. I don't see my self that way. I am more of a Ghengis Khan or Atilla the Hun sort.

Being an asshole will get the job done. It will take you places. It wont make you popular, but it will get you results when it comes down to crunch time.

Oh, and I had this idea to boost employee morale... Getting all of them together and having a painball tourney. I want to see who in my employ have a taste for blood... Who will lead, who will follow, and potential future trouble makers. I think a painball tourney and maybe a ropes course session or three with either make the team or break it.