When I was a student I worked my Summer holidays as a filing clerk in a branch office of one of the biggest firms of lawyers in Scotland. The firm was on the cutting edge of modern employment practise at the time and was a big believer in incentives as a means to improve performance at all levels in the organisation.
They even had incentives for filing clerks like me. The clerk who managed to have the clearest filing basket at the end of each month got a hundred quid. And this was back in the days when a hundred pounds could buy you every packet of Top Trumps ever published with enough change left over for a Pocketeer.
I was frustrated though. I never won. A filing clerk in Paisley won the prize for ten months running.
She was rumbled eventually though. It is easy to clear your basket if you simply set fire to its contents once a week.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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