My husband started something that he wished he had never done.
He put the HVAC technicians in his company, in competition.
He gave them goals and when they reached those goals they got a reward. They could trade their rewards in for a day off with pay, to a paid week-long paid vacation, a cruise, or a three-day stay at an expense paid tropical resort. The HVAC technicians are taking their competition a little too seriously. They have inside bets on who is going to get the best remarks from their customers. They have written up surveys they can hand out to their HVAC customers and mail them in to the HVAC company. They already have their name HVAC badge number printed on their surveys, and they are postage free. They put a lot of work into this competition, but they are having fun. I told my husband to quit worrying, because the novelty will soon wear off. Six weeks later, he told me he had to call the competition off. He could no longer afford for these guys to compete. He wanted them to concentrate on being HVAC technicians, and not on how to win an all expense paid vacation. I laughed. I knew he was upset more because two guys wanted to go on vacation with each other, and he would end up working. He said he didn’t mind if they took their wives and spent time at the resort, but he didn’t want to go back to being a full-time HVAC technician. We laughed and asked if it would be wrong if he got in on the competition. He would love to take me on vacation.