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You can at least tell at a glance that someone isn't smoking joints and napping all day

Is that really a problem though? If someone appears to never be busy but always delivers I’d give them a raise, not ask why they are slacking.

If someone looks like they are slacking (not busy( but I can’t tell if they are delivering enough, then the problem isn’t that they aren’t busy.

and if the work is still getting done does it matter? is mgmt my boss or just the cops?

But the work is not getting done

Oh, so you do know that without having to see them smoking joints and napping all day at a glance.