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• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  I just hope my employers don't see this and get any new ideas for increasing productivity. This is just the kind of fear tactic they'd love. Since the company was sold to an investment firm, they've pulled every trick out of the book. Their last one was firing anybody who dared complain about being forced to outsource work when our American employees task lists started getting too low for us to reach 100% of our productivity goals....
• hijukal commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  His employees ought to band together, setup a number of fake email addresses which only forward to the bosses' email account. Then use those fake addresses to meet their quota. Problem solved. The more they use, the better it'll be....
• ocschwar commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  The discussion here is making me speak up, and antinous, please forgive the all-caps. DOCKING EMPLOYEE PAY IS ILLEGAL. THE PROPER TERM FOR IT IS WAGE THEFT. It violates federal laws, it violates state laws. The mere thought that there might be BoingBoing readers who don't know this, is a sign of just how far this country has allowed labor standards to decline. The US department of labor and the state equivalents are charged with the responsibility of investigating and correcting cases of wage theft. The federal department has been downright derelict about this duty. (The GAO recently released a...
• Xopher commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  I love this idea. The addresses wouldn't bounce, since they're legit, but no one would have to look at the accounts, ever. Now: how to get them to forward to the boss is less than clear (I'm sure the techies here will pipe up and explain just how to do it), but might be counterproductive. The scumbag might figure it out when his mailbox got many copies of his own spam. Also, if you create a large number of fake email addresses, you're going to find that they fall into a naming pattern, which might also clue in the skeeve....
• IronEdithKidd commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  Managerese has always provided me with the nearly uncontrollable urge to strangle the speaker. Ineffective, clueless fuckwits use that jargon in a misplaced attempt to disguise their ineptitude in managing either people or work. Seriously, if you ever hear the words "low hanging fruit" or "synergy" come out of a manager's mouth, get yourself reassigned ASAP. These are blamestorming glory hogs, and just about the lowest form of office life. New Yorker's might consider visiting Paradou just once with the express purpose of verbally undressing the owner for demanding that wait staff elicit email addresses from patrons. In addition, any...