As with a fair share of truths I have stumbled upon in my workplace, this one came about while joking with a couple of my library co-workers, but it does go a fair way to explaining how we work around here.
To briefly set the stage, all of the printing that people do here at my library works on the honor system. It costs 20 cents per page of printing or copying, and to pay for it, one just drops what one owes in a metal lock box located near any printer or copier. This system does manage, by all accounts, and despite being a tens of thousands of dollars operation, to pay for itself, despite not being monitored or policed in any way.
My colleagues were discussing a former co-worker who was breathtakingly bad. This led to the discussion of other bad co-workers and how one's behavior has to be so bad that it is literally criminal to result in being fired from my library. At which point it dawned on me:
Work at my library operates on the honor system. People are assigned places throughout the day, and they either do work or don't. Some people don't really do anything and some do a lot. Whatever frustrations, or injustice there may be in it, in the end, it is exactly like the printing:
It all averages out to where it gets done.
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