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Do you not think this would introduce a ton of mental load just keeping track of everything? You're almost a one man business, doing their own books, and then
by benj111 7y ago
Do you not think this would introduce a ton of mental load just keeping track of everything?
You're almost a one man business, doing their own books, and then you've got the sources of conflict that come with that. What if you an a colleague agree to split the costs of a meeting room and he doesn't pay? So already you're introducing rudimentary contract law, and having to keep track of people that don't pay their bills.
This does raise an interesting question of whether you'd get meta employees providing services for the employees, perhaps credit ratings, banking, perhaps you could book up all the meeting rooms yourself and sub let them.
Ultimately in these situations you're doing the bidding of higher ups. If they decide you're having too many meetings, they'll find ways to cut down the number of meetings, then some thing will go wrong, lack of meetings will be blamed, and they'll be rolled back out again.
- petre 7y ago> What if you an a colleague agree to split the costs of a meeting room and he doesn't pay In Japan? Not likely. And probably their app already handles that.
- benj111 7y agoI'm sure there are people in Japan that are dishonest or forget, or get sick and don't come into work on the relevant day. The app possibly could handle most of it, there surely has to be a point somewhere where the decision to share the room has been made, but hasn't been formalised yet. There may be a system where it requires both of you to agree to rent the room, so you aren't left with an unpaid bill, you may be left without a room that you needed though, which may be worse.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoBut Japanese people never make mistakes. They always pay their bills. They are always on time. They are robot gods. Turns out they actually do do all of the things you suggest, but that's not how they perceive themselves to be, so 'they don't do that'. True story - I worked on implementing a billing system for a Japanese utility company and when our team asked for the requirements around how to handling dunning when people don't pay their bills the response we got back was "Japanese people always pay their bills." I shit you not.