Making an employee who fails to meet a performance standard
do squats or press ups seems about the most unusual way to discipline staff in
the workplace!
Well this is the approach taken by the flagship Abercrombie
& Fitch shop in Milan. Staff who failed to greet customers with ‘sufficient cheeriness’ were ordered
to do 10 press ups (male employees) or 10 squats (female employees). We won’t
even comment on the sex discrimination occurring here with regards to ability
of male and female employees!
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| Could this Abercrombie & Fitch model be 'cheerier'? |
We must admit though novel, we would struggle to write this
into any disciplinary policy!
Why a quiet word wouldn’t be sufficient in cases like this
we are not sure, but some sort of ‘cheeriness competency framework’ would have
to be developed.
We smiled after we read this, so no press ups or squats for The
HR Dept!
