Do you know the Wal-Mart Cheer?

[jmowreader]

5. They don't actually do that anymore

They finally figured out the real cost of the Wal-Mart Cheer: if there are 100 employees in the store at the time of the meeting, they make an average of $10 per hour, the meeting lasts fifteen minutes and it takes an average of fifteen minutes to walk from the department to the front of the store and back, that little morale-destroying exercise costs $500 in wages plus 50 worker-hours' worth of productivity. So now they hang yesterday's sales figures next to the time clock and call it good.