Posted on 09/05/2011 2:47:19 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
(NewsCore) - As far as management problems go it's become the stickiest labour issue of the French summer.
Executives who would normally be delighted to learn that their employees have foregone lunch breaks or stayed late to work on a project have been dismayed to find their motivations have nothing to do with profit or company advancement.
The problem is that office staff have spent hours producing extravagant designs by sticking vast quantities of Post-It notes to their office windows over the past couple of months in a craze that is sweeping the nation.
The latest creation, a huge six storey representation of Asterix and Obelix, appeared on the windows offices of Societe Generale, the bank, in La Defense business district west of Paris last week.
Fifty employees stuck 9,000 notes of eight different colors on the windows...
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
3M stock ought to go up at this news...
what good is a story like this without ONE photo??
Did I miss something?
Yes, I’m an Asterix and Obelix fan, not to speak of Tintin. Where’s the pics?
Pictures here http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/aug/30/post-it-wars-pictures#/?picture=378423958&index=11
Color me not impressed!
Now, if they actually put that effort into some sort of business appropriate productivity, maybe the EU wouldn't be in such a sad economic state.
Guaranteed jobs = guaranteed failure.
Better pictures here: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/post-it-note-wars
It isn’t as if they had to worry about their jobs. I understand it is pretty hard to fire someone in France.
Ha
Thanks for the pictures. They make the thread! But what a waste of labor!
There were no pictures associated with the story I posted. But thanks to enterprising FReepers, there are pictures now. Just scroll down (or up).
When you can’t be fired for wasting time or office supplies ....
I like the Tintin one... :-)
****The rules are that you can use only whole Post-Its – no cutting the edges to suit your design – and that you cannot write on them or color them in.****
There’s rules to them Post-it Wars. What, did they have a Geneva Convention or something?
Don’t many businesses pay artists to paint on the windows anyway? We heard about here, so it is obviously an effective advertising technique.
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