Respect 😠
"At SpaceX, we specialize in converting things from impossible to late."
—Elon Musk
> late to the resistance | scrappy
This may be a shock.
But just because we're late to work doesn't mean we're lazy.
Are you a more valuable employee than me just because you "know how to show up on time?"
For all we know, that's all you know.
Being late to everything can't correlate with laziness, and the reason is simple.
- Lateness is measured by time. ⏰
- Laziness is measured by subjective opinion and our distorted interpretations of reality.
Amazon, which has been called "the smartest company on earth," doesn't measure laziness or rigidly punish for minor lateness.
Instead, it focuses on productivity, not on its feelings and emotions.
Oklahoma's beloved QuikTrip Corporation also doesn't aggressively punish minor tardiness.
But the owner of a coffee shop where I worked in Tulsa had long enforced a policy that punished lateness. He told us over Slack that there were serial offenders in our midst.
I was one of them.
He invited us to discuss what he should do. But he wanted us to know something first.
It didn't make him uncomfortable to terminate people. He actually called himself "scrappy."
>> "Hell, I threw the health inspector out one time in front of a LONG line of people waiting for me to make their drinks. I'm not afraid to fire anyone. In fact, I used to offer my firing services to other business owners I knew who didn't like firing people."
Disrespect was intolerable, he wrote.
Men are dumb, I thought.
- next time "Laziness is individually perceived."
- listening Coco Jones "Fallin"
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