That's John Galt and the Twentieth Centiry Motor Company right there. Only, in "Atlas Shrugged", the unproductive people were not fired. They were kept on the payroll (as a kindness) and the few productive people had to work harder to support them. Bit by bit the productive people decided to be just as unproductive as the rest. John Galt was one of the few who actually "quit".
“That’s John Galt and the Twentieth Centiry Motor Company right there. Only, in “Atlas Shrugged”, the unproductive people were not fired. They were kept on the payroll (as a kindness) and the few productive people had to work harder to support them. Bit by bit the productive people decided to be just as unproductive as the rest. John Galt was one of the few who actually “quit”.
Exactly. what was interesting, after the purges, was how many of the good people left my old company, before or after a group meeting with all of the phoney bonding bs was aimed at them.
One of my former peers quit on a tuesday, after 1 day of a 3 day bs bonding meeting after the purges. He said that he was shaving the next morning before the meeting started. He looked himself in the eyes and said to himself, “Its past time to leave!”.
He wrote a note to his boss that he was resigning that Friday. He gave the note to his room mate for the meeting to give to their boss. Then he packed up, checked out of the hotel and drove home.
When he got home, his wife looked at him, and said “If you aren’t sick, I hope that you resigned!”
He told her that he was gone from the company on Friday. She said good, and they went out for lunch and to the beach to walk and talk afterwards. He said that night both of them had a good night’s sleep, the first since the purges had started.