# JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/joe-legal-vs-jose-illegal/248394 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [November 15, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/joe-legal-vs-jose-illegal/248394 "2009-11-15T20:33:54Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 118
### Author: ![99FRC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/99frc/32/6335_2.png) [@99FRC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/99FRC) #### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/joe-legal-vs-jose-illegal/248394/118 "2009-11-17T10:02:12Z")
> [@Conklin's new helmet V.Sabres](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/conklins-new-helmet-v-sabres/25926/33): > > Great story first off Ilya. > > Yup. Which is why I came up with this idea. When I own a company some day, I will have a policy that states: If you think you can do my job better, go for it. The idea is this, I will allow anyone from the janitor to the CIO to attempt to do someone else’s job in my company for a week. If they can carry the weight and actually do it better than the person already in that position, I will pay them the weekly wage that other person makes. While the person in question gets docked down to what the other guy makes for the week. This idea does MANY things. It more or less keeps everyone honest in my organization. You can’t kick your feet up on the desk and sleep all day if you’re in some nice cushy office position. You cant just skate through an interview and get into a position, and not have a fucking clue how to do the work. Which make me have to fire and rehire, which wastes money and time. It also builds competition, and makes people step up their game. New ideas will be introduced, and your business will improve. How many times do you feel like you have a great idea or a fix to a problem but cant get a voice in the situation because of your low end position? IMO this is a bad idea. You do not want to create extra competition between your employees. The best solution I have used to promote work ethic is to push everyone to work as a team, working for each other to reach a common goal. I find it best to reward the team as a whole. If they meet the goal, they ALL get a reward, bonus, extra vaca time, etc. This makes the work environment more efficient and pushes them to work together. If someone is lagging far enough behind to drop the team to an inefficient level, that persons job position will go up for review. As far as listening to what lower, mid and even high level employees have to say as far as the company goes. I find having a company wide meeting, including those employees, works very well. You are involving them, their managers, and upper level. Every one is able to give and take feedback, and use the information wisely. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/joe-legal-vs-jose-illegal/248394)._