Ron,

>Sometime in the last few years I heard
>second-hand about a study about
>the value of keeping the worst employee
>around.

In a company of more than one employee there is
always a worst employee.

How is 'Worst' to be measured?

I might regard Lindsay as being worse than me because he
"regards programming as being akin to painting a picture or
composing music", while he might regard me as being worse
than him because I don't draw these parallels.

If we are going to discuss programmer productivity people
might like to read:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/prechelt99grantsackman.html

> The gist was things such as
>that it gave other employees a benchmark
>by which to judge themselves superior

Pride before the fall.


derek

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