On 7/27/07 6:34 AM, "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Brian Robinson (CONTRACT) wrote:
> 
>> A very good point. I had a friend who graduated from the Wharton
>> School of Bidness a few years ago. He was of the mindset that it was
>> best to pay the bottom 2% of workers to stay at home because they
>> bring more inefficiency into the system than production. Anyone who
>> has ever owned a business probably agrees with this concept.
>> Essentially 100% employment is less productive than 98% employment.
> 
> I once worked for a man that was a grad of Wharton. His third-generation
> family business ran into the ground, he had a stroke or two, and then
> semi-retired to Boca Raton. For me his business was a training ground
> for what not to do.
> 
> The problem with the 2% idea is figuring out how to identify the
> non-productive 2% complicated by the additional problem of trying to
> figure out what to do about the non-productive 2% once you have figured
> out who they are, and not finding yourself in an even more
> non-productive law suit as a result of your actually saying how you
> identify the non-productive 2%. Our current business plan is to have no
> employees on the theory that if it is going to get screwed up we might
> as well be the ones ourselves to screw it up as no matter what else
> happens we get to fix it. I have certainly had plenty of employees, and
> employers, in my life to be able to say that I don't miss not having them.
> 
> Difficult to say where 2% begins but I do know that you can have one
> employee who does something really stupid in a window of minutes of time
> that they should have had the sense to avoid and gets themselves or
> others hurt as a result and leads to extremely debilitating
> non-productive law suits that go on for a decade or more and slowly
> erode an otherwise healthy business into dirt.
> 
> On that theory about the buttefly in Peru having an affect on Wall
> Street... consider it may only take a few minutes of brain spasm of an
> idiot in power to destroy the habitable earth. Choose your idiot wisely,
> vote.
> 
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I've solved about 50% of the 2% by 'creating' a subcontracting section in my
business, that way it doesn't matter how long it takes it's their prob.
Also 'loosing' 70% of my workers helped a lot.
J

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