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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Actual communication from management

At the beginning of a recent project, on the second day the project managers came out and informed the temps that they were expected to code 100 documents per hour. This might nor might not be a high number, depending upon the reviewing software and the complexity of the documents. This was the second day of the project, however, which is a touch early to make a decision like that, since no information on either of those factors is really available yet. Plus, quotas, especially high ones, tend to degrade quality. Nonetheless, when some foolish temps started to voice objections, the assistant project manager stated loudly and forcefully:

"Do you think you can't make that?!?!?!?! Do you want to stand out?"

To stand out in the rest of the world usually is a good thing. Not in Temp Town.

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