I had a boss who wanted everything I did logged out into five minute increments. Even lawyers only go down to quarter-hours in granularity, last I heard. This

I had a boss who wanted everything I did logged out into five minute increments. Even lawyers only go down to quarter-hours in granularity, last I heard. This pattern of relentless squeezing by management, ratcheting ever-tighter, seems to lead to collapse each time I have encountered it. I have yet to come up with a decent metaphor for the phenomenon, but it seems to be born of the idea that efficiency can always increase in increments that themselves do not decrease. The easy answer would be to wave the disparaging "capitalism" wand over it, yet history has reliable notes of this happening in governments opposed to capitalism. Perhaps it is just the thought that one can get more ... forever.