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Countless prison-based films (Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke etc) feature a "hole" for solitary confinement. The characters talk about how you have to focus on something to retain your sanity while inside this dark, tiny cell.
This got me thinking that maybe this focus could be used constructively.
Things that require a lot of sitting around and thinking, like software development, writing novels, coming up with HB ideas etc, could perhaps benefit from being performed while inside a hole.
Boss: "Steven, how long do you think this component's going to take you?"
Steven: "Er, dunno, 2 months?"
Boss: "2 months huh? You've just earned yourself 4 weeks in the hole."
Steven: "But..."
Boss: "Make that 6 weeks!"
When their time is up, the employee would emerge filthy, bearded and temporarily blind, bearing a perfectly-constructed piece of software or a glittering final chapter to their novel.
Optionally, your boss could come in every couple of days and give you a good shoeing, just to keep your mind sharp.
Case in point.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=P5_Msrdg3Hk
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 01 2019]
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Reason #483 to "retire" and go into business for your elf. |
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We have this already, it's called "ISO 9002 Quality Training". |
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Sounds like a cubicle with a ceiling. |
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This idea really made me giggle. |
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Think of the corporate efficiency which might result from the requirement that all management meetings be held in the hole. But I'm not sure I wouldn't rather go into business for Marassa's elf. |
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"I'm not having an elf shoe me..nah way" |
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In case you get rabbit in your blood, and you decide to take off for home, you get some bonus time and leg chains to slow you down. |
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I almost expected this to be from blissmiss, almost |
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I'm sure most bosses would be more than happy to lock you in a cupboard for the next month, if you ask them nicely. My old boss favoured this approach, although at least he brought us pizza occasionally. |
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Combined with hotdesking, how much office/desk space could this save??? |
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But how much work will get done with 2/3 of Microsoft in
solitary? |
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How are you going to get much work done on something
concrete if you don't have access to the thing you're
supposed to be working on? I can't necessarily keep a whole
<given amount of code> in my mind while I'm thinking about
what code to write next, for example. I'd need a computer
in there. |
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