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The worst thing in the world is punishing the pilot when the plane crashes, but not rewarding t

After weeks of frustration over gym weights not being put back, the fix was posting a photo calling out the mess publicly, then posting praise the next day when it was clean, making the point that people get punished for mistakes but rarely praised for doing things right.

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  • And then I will also be able to, again today, like the day before [music] yesterday, I took a picture of the gym when I went in and it was clean and I said, "Great job." Because the worst thing in the world is you punish people when a plane crashes, but you don't [music] give them applause when they land it right every other time.

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    Abschnitt 1 Last week, someone left a plate on one of my machines.
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    Abschnitt 2 And then I will also be able to, again today, like the day before [music] yesterday, I took a picture of the gym when I went in and it was clean and I said, "Great job." Because th

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0:00Last week, someone left a plate on one of my machines. I had put plates back basically every other time that I walked in the gym for probably like [music] a month. And I was getting a little tired of it. And so, I was trying to play detective during that like month trying to figure out who was doing it be like, "Hey man, by the way, just put [music] your weights back." As I was putting the weights back, I was like, "This is a complete and utter waste of my time." But, I was like, "How am I going to figure out a way that I can reward and publicly show that this is [music] not okay?" I posted a picture of the weights and I said, "Hey, no one's allowed to work out today because we, as a company, didn't know how to clean up after ourselves." And then the next day, [music] and this is the key part, when the gym was clean, I took a picture of the clean gym and I was like, "Great job, everyone. Way to keep it clean."

0:39And then I will also be able to, again today, like the day before [music] yesterday, I took a picture of the gym when I went in and it was clean and I said, "Great job." Because the worst thing in the world is you punish people when a plane crashes, but you don't [music] give them applause when they land it right every other time.