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That sounds like the definition of any job. As a janitor, your job is not to mop floors. Your job is to clean messy problems.
by codexon 17y ago
That sounds like the definition of any job.
As a janitor, your job is not to mop floors. Your job is to clean messy problems.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoTrue. And, yet, if the floors are spotless, but the janitor seems to spend 90% of his day on the iPhone... How many managers are clueful enough to figure out that the janitor is accomplishing the task and leave him to do so in his own way? All kinds of people mistake work for a form of punishment: if you don't look like you're toiling you must be doing something wrong. This is especially true when evaluating someone else's work.
- herval 17y agotrivia: the portuguese form of work (trabalho) is a derivative of tripalium - an ancient roman torturing tool. So yeah, it kinda makes sense that some people take work as punishment... :-)
- known 17y agoI think Cook is a better analogy