Comments on: Job vs. Job http://robbmiller.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/job-vs-job/ The Ubiquitous Tangents of Robb's Conjecture Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:56:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: JL! http://robbmiller.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/job-vs-job/#comment-7 JL! Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:31:26 +0000 https://robbmiller.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/job-vs-job/#comment-7 Since working for Apple I've felt strongly about this: rules dictating what workers can or can't do are completely ridiculous, especially when the worker's actions wouldn't be disturbing someone else. Am I going to keep someone else from getting work done by looking at a web page? Heck no! Here's the deal at Apple: get your work done, and make it good, or you're fired. That's all. And that's all the motivation I need. If I want to browse the web, that's fine. If I want to chat with my wife while I'm at work, that's fine. If I don't get my work done, they'll have someone else in there who is just as capable as I am in two weeks, and that's all there is to it. Why is this hard for employers to figure out? Dressing nicely and acting like you're a good employee doesn't make you a good employee. Being results-focused makes you a good employee. Since working for Apple I’ve felt strongly about this: rules dictating what workers can or can’t do are completely ridiculous, especially when the worker’s actions wouldn’t be disturbing someone else. Am I going to keep someone else from getting work done by looking at a web page? Heck no!

Here’s the deal at Apple: get your work done, and make it good, or you’re fired. That’s all. And that’s all the motivation I need. If I want to browse the web, that’s fine. If I want to chat with my wife while I’m at work, that’s fine. If I don’t get my work done, they’ll have someone else in there who is just as capable as I am in two weeks, and that’s all there is to it. Why is this hard for employers to figure out? Dressing nicely and acting like you’re a good employee doesn’t make you a good employee. Being results-focused makes you a good employee.

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