tell people that their work needs improving

[Rebecca]

What is the best way to tell people that their work needs improvement?

 

[Ed Bennett]

What is the best way to tell people that their work needs improvement?

Probably not the way I'm doing it.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

What?...is this a surprise quiz or something?

Sheesh.

 

[Chuck Davis]

Obviously that was a physical disability! You shouldn't discriminate...

 

[John G]

I didn't. In the department we were in was one that required the
employee to do field trips of an area of responsibility which afforded
the employee opportunity to visit home where I suggested a bath before
returning to the office. This seemed to solve the problem for the
complaints ceased. If the problem continued I thought I would offer
the individual a position in one of our remote, single employee
offices.

Then there is the Army solution: A GI shower; setup seminar in a
location that required an overnight stay and let the peers persuade
the individual "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."

(For those who don't know what a GI shower is; corn brushes, steel
wool, soap and cold water administered by those who are interested in
your cleanliness).

A variation of a GI shower from times past.
Smearing the offender with all the contents of a 1lb (1/2 Kilo) tube of
Gestetner ink and throwing all the offending clothes in a bathtub
resulted in the victim being sweet smelling for a few days at least. Of
course the ink was rubbed in hardest in the most difficult to clean
places.
The decision to apply this penalty was made by a Kangaroo Court
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court )
where the court was composed of barracks mates of the accused .

A Gestetner (for the youngsters here) was a machine for making copies
using wax masters before copiers were invented.
The ink came in tubes like a large toothpaste tube and was BLACK and
greasy.

 

[Ed Bennett]

A Gestetner (for the youngsters here) was a machine for making copies
using wax masters before copiers were invented.
The ink came in tubes like a large toothpaste tube and was BLACK and
greasy.

I thought Gestetner was a brand name (I've seen modern Gestetner
photocopiers over here - Wikipedia says that they're now a subsidiary of
Ricoh).

I'm guessing (based again on Wikipedia) that it was a mimeograph (I've seen
photocopies of mimeographed worksheets in school, where teachers have not
bothered to make new versions of the sheets in a decade or more).

Interestingly enough, the modern Risograph is a derivative of the
mimeograph - I hadn't realised that (our church recently bought a Risograph
for producing medium-volume copies).