[derwiki]

> Everything about their employees is monitored and tracked, down to individual finger and eye movements, to prevent waste and track performance. All emails that are sent out include an estimate of how long they should take to read. Go to fast, you get scolded for not paying attention. Go too slow, you get scolded for inefficiency. Get it just right? You get scolded for being a smartass.

—- Snowcrash

[D-Coder]

Communist logic:

Three prisoners in communist East Germany were talking about their crimes.

1: "I always got to work five minutes early. They convicted me of spying."

2: "I always got to work five minutes late. They convicted me of sabotage."

3: "I always got to work exactly on time. They convicted me of owning a Western watch."

[trhway]

In USSR it was a planned economy as everybody knows. Producing less than planned amount was bad - from possibility of it being treated as sabotage in Stalin times to not getting bonus and being openly shamed in later times. Producing more than planned amount was good - bonus and "honour roll". Produce much more than planned amount, especially several times in a row - your planned amount will be adjusted upward, and not only yours, the colleagues in similar jobs/situations would get their plans adjusted up too. So the art was to produce just a bit more, enough to get bonus and honours, yet not trigger the adjustment up.