{"id":227,"date":"2011-03-31T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/?p=227"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:16:55","slug":"idiots-and-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/2011\/03\/idiots-and-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiots and Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managers that implement these sorts of programs without finding out one simple thing are idiots and fools.  <\/p>\n<p>What is that one simple thing?  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really just one question.  &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then the manager, owner, fool in charge ask themselves what do I want?  To stop being the idiot and the fool you realize; I can trade what I want for what they want.  Reward program, compensation plan or pay scale it&#8217;s all the same. I was making $9 an hour, cleaning a butchers shop, as a sophomore in high school,1985 . I made $20 an hour gluing rocks together my first year in college, 1988.  The second year after earning my associates degree I was working 5 hours a day getting paid over $75,000 a year teaching people how to count paper, 1996. Amazingly a few were making $40 an hour counting that paper, the average was $18.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard it some where &#8220;ask and you shall receive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a comment in reference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/MaKSv\">Tech Republic Article &#8220;Do Formalized Reward Programs Really Work?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managers that implement these sorts of programs without finding out one simple thing are idiots and fools. What is that one simple thing? It&#8217;s really just one question. &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; Then the manager, owner, fool in charge ask themselves what do I want? To stop being the idiot and the fool you realize;&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/2011\/03\/idiots-and-fools\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dmgsouth","category-profit-sharing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmgsouth.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}