LogFAQs > #927971007

I think people that believe in those systems don't think slackers exist. They think we're all being held down by undue hardship and we'll shine to brilliance once that all goes away.

Those of us with real jobs know better. Sometimes it's the workplace idiot that thinks getting a piece of paper into a box by a certain time is just too hard to do every month. Sometimes it's the family member without a job that spends their day on facebook, smoking weed, and begging for help with anything they don't want to do (bonus point if it's like my one cousin that gets very abusive if work done for her out of the goodness of another's heart isn't perfect.)

Either way, we know people can be lazy, either directly by not wanting to do anything, or indirectly by not learning good work habits that would keep them on the proper task.

And to be fair, it's at all levels. Management is full of idiots and slackers that charmed their way into high positions now needing a different paid position to do work they see beneath them or aren't good at. Dilbert cartoons wouldn't still exist if that wasn't the case. I think those systems could work if this was addressed, and they certainly would go over better with the population as a whole. It just wouldn't go over well with the bleeding hearts and slackers think it will all work out somehow instead of bringing in the hard line boss to say "you don't get to draw comic all day. We need people in the fields or in the hospitals providing care, so you will go into those fields and you will work your best at them, or you will only be having your basic needs met. Luxury and leisure can go to those providing to the state what the state needs."
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