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Employer Tracked Everyone’s Mistakes in a Spreadsheet and Shared it in Staff Meetings

My former employer used to track the cost of every mistake that every employee made (except senior management of course) in a spreadsheet with details about their screwups. This even included mistakes as simple as if someone accidentally printed off the wrong report, they would actually track the cost of the printer paper and ink. Then they would share this spreadsheet with all the staff to shame the employees and used it as a reason to cut bonuses for the whole company (again, except senior management) and to not give anyone raises that year. The total monetary value of the mistakes they were tracking came to less than the cost of one of the owner’s “business” trips at a five-star hotel in NYC. Then they wondered why over 60% of their staff quit within the next six months.


My former employer used to track the cost of every mistake that every employee made (except senior management of course) in a spreadsheet with details about their screwups. This even included mistakes as simple as if someone accidentally printed off the wrong report, they would actually track the cost of the printer paper and ink.

Then they would share this spreadsheet with all the staff to shame the employees and used it as a reason to cut bonuses for the whole company (again, except senior management) and to not give anyone raises that year.

The total monetary value of the mistakes they were tracking came to less than the cost of one of the owner’s “business” trips at a five-star hotel in NYC.

Then they wondered why over 60% of their staff quit within the next six months.

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