Norm was pillorying this corporate practice in 2006. Here it is 15 years later, and retail stores are still managing personnel in this way. Corporations seem eternally doomed to be penny wise and pound foolish – you’d think they’d teach something called “common sense” in business school, but no…
Honestly surprised there aren’t courses in management or planning wherein the odd DILBERT strip isn’t shown as an example of how such-and-such might break down or be misinterpreted, at least.
Then the inventory number gets off and will either not order something you need or order something you don’t need.
Memories of the 50 cases of brown junction boxes all flooding back to me.
We had almost got a third of the way through it by the time I left 3 years later
Norm was pillorying this corporate practice in 2006. Here it is 15 years later, and retail stores are still managing personnel in this way. Corporations seem eternally doomed to be penny wise and pound foolish – you’d think they’d teach something called “common sense” in business school, but no…
Honestly surprised there aren’t courses in management or planning wherein the odd DILBERT strip isn’t shown as an example of how such-and-such might break down or be misinterpreted, at least.
Common sense is a bloody super-power these days.
First “payroll was cut” punchline