This article even discounts that at minimum wage jobs, you're paid for your time, not the job you do. So this is doing the reverse of what's reasonable. You're

This article even discounts that at minimum wage jobs, you're paid for your time, not the job you do. So this is doing the reverse of what's reasonable. You're better off sweeping the floor slower, because if you finish faster, there is no way any manager will let you go home, job well done. You'll get more work. Put on headphones with music or a podcast or even youtube, and take 1-2 or even 4 hours more than you would normally do. Have an accident every few days. Oh, and here's another problem with the best solution. Managers are idiots. They actually have zero clue what's a good time/performance for floor sweeping since they'd never stoop to the level of doing it themselves, even once. If you're going close to best possible, any slight disturbance will make a large difference in your performance, since that's what the manager actually measures. If you're doing a piss-poor job but by changing your speed a bit when something inevitably goes wrong, and you do about the same quality in about the same time every time, your manager will be more happy. Hell, it'll make it easier for him to organize the store so it may actually be better economically too. The better you optimize this, the worse you're off. Hell, given that many consider you're better off on unemployment you should do worse than the worst the manager accepts (since you get unemployment if the manager fires you but not if you quit). Then you get a bit less money, but you have no costs (you have to pay for food, and public transport, every day, but only if working. Unemployed you can stay at home and cook) So ... does this optimization tool have a way to accomplish the actual best outcome?