Bob should be fired. He clearly shows no independent initiative and burdens his colleagues with his insatiable need to be given "tasks" like a robot. Is he a ro

Bob should be fired. He clearly shows no independent initiative and burdens his colleagues with his insatiable need to be given "tasks" like a robot. Is he a robot? Is it really BOB the Multivac we are talking about here and not a human being at all? If not fired, his time should be padded out with Turing tests to determine whether he is indeed an AI. If he is human, the most compassionate thing his management could do is to assign him tasks that deepen his humanity and prepare him for a life that isn't just being told what to do next. "Read this novel by Friday", "Watch this film and write a report on its meaning and relation to your own experience", "Take a walk along the river and report all the things you saw". If that's not the sort of place you work, assign him random tickets from random open source projects sponsored by your company. The first task could be to write a random task generator in a randomly selected language. Then, open an office pool and take bets on Bob's tasks. Make it interesting. The person who wins the pool gets to fire Bob.