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Yeah, the headline doesn't parse. The verb is "downs," it seems, but they're not taking anything down.
by tdoggette 17y ago
Yeah, the headline doesn't parse. The verb is "downs," it seems, but they're not taking anything down.
- thalur 17y agoThey haven't taken anything down, they've put down their tools. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_down_one%27s_tools http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_down_one%27s_tools
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoExcept that they haven't. They've just been told to work on other things for 3½ days. I like the idea though.
- megamark16 17y agoThat's exactly what confused me, they aren't putting down tools, they're just using them for whatever they want. I really like the idea too, at my last job there was a lot of discussion for a while about taking 4 hours each week to work on whatever you wanted and present it to the group at the next team meeting. It never really panned out, at least not officially.
- Angostura 17y agoIt parses if you are a Brit. The phrase 'down tools' harks back to the years of industrial strife when the union would instruct workers to ... well, I'm sure you can guess. My thought on this initiative was that it reminded me of the Google system of personal projects, expect coordinated across the entire company.
- billybob 17y agodown (v): to drink rapidly; to quaff