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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I remember reading an ad in DC's City Paper about the opportunity to PAY $2000 for 2 weeks and go help in Cuba's sugar harvest. I had an epiphany! Overpaid overstressed people could do with a few weeks of dumb work.
I thought about starting a company where I would run a McDonald's. I would staff it with lawyers/doctors etc. who were on a "vacation." They would pay me $3000 per week to work at my McDonald's. I would hire a mean late-teenager to manage, and make the week a hell hole for my vacationers.
I would have a very well-educated staff, plus I'd be helping them realize how nice their real jobs really are. I also think the week there would be a great stress relief for the professionals. You wouldn't have to worry about committting million $$$ malpractice; at most you'd burn a basket of fries.
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It's interesting that you chose McDonald's for your example. For many years (I don't know if they still keep up the practice) McDonald's had a week where they put all their senior and middle managers and their primary outside advisors on the line in stores.
Jack Greenberg, CEO would spend a week flipping burgers, taking orders, and mopping johns. So would his lawyers and accountants. The whole point was to cause them to refocus on what it was that brought the money in the door.
It was both a team-building exercise and a way for them to keep their appreciation for the market they were so far removed from in the executive dining room.
