It’s totally a management responsibility to plan for expected demand and communicate that to their employees. They have the sales data and that is the basis for demand planning. If you’re selling 100 cookies on a normal thursday, they have to check if this thursday looks normal or if there is something unusual going on (holiday periods, special occasions etc.) and then tell their employees to bake x cookies.
I don’t disagree but none of that actually refutes the line of thinking of the manager.
Manager: Make 100 cookies for today.
Employees: well we know we get to take the extra, so we’ll make 102. No one will notice a little extra made, and we never sell exactly 100, so it won’t be unusual for a few leftover. And we’ll get to take them.
Like I said originally, I get it but I don’t agree with it.
I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.
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It’s totally a management responsibility to plan for expected demand and communicate that to their employees. They have the sales data and that is the basis for demand planning. If you’re selling 100 cookies on a normal thursday, they have to check if this thursday looks normal or if there is something unusual going on (holiday periods, special occasions etc.) and then tell their employees to bake x cookies.
I don’t disagree but none of that actually refutes the line of thinking of the manager.
Manager: Make 100 cookies for today.
Employees: well we know we get to take the extra, so we’ll make 102. No one will notice a little extra made, and we never sell exactly 100, so it won’t be unusual for a few leftover. And we’ll get to take them.
Like I said originally, I get it but I don’t agree with it.
I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.
there would still be the Insentive to have left over cookies if the leftover cookies are ever used for a cause the employees consider desirable
I’d be curious to see if any fast-food workers here could chip in and describe the process; do they even track that level of detail?