A Question for Managers: Could You Do This?
From a WSJ online article on the iPone:
Aaron Rheingold, an intern at Universal Music, said his boss sent him
to wait in line. "I got stuck on iPhone detail," he said. "I'm not
getting anything out of this, except maybe a pat on the back and free
lunch." He says his boss postponed his flight to Puerto Rico today to
be back in the office when Mr. Rheingold returns with the goods.
Perhaps I am just a modern, soft, girly-man, oprah-fied manager, but I could not in a million years imagine asking one of my employees to go wait overnight in line for me so I could get an iPhone before my peers. And that is in a private company where my employees' salary comes out of my pocket. I would be even less likely to send out an employee whose salary is paid by the shareholders of a publicly-traded company.
