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Upon uttering the password his friend has revealed to him, he is escorted into a mansion where some sort of high priest dressed in red is swinging incense and rapping a staff on the marble floor as lugubrious choral music drones on in the background.
Deming's emphasis on worker autonomy and a joint "conversation" about the company's goals revises the much stricter model of "scientific management" championed by Frederick W. Taylor at the turn of the century, in which the workers were expected to be obedient drones.
Good reviews for the first nonanimated feature film written and directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill . "Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts," says Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times . The subject is the soul-crushing monotony of life in a corporate cubicle, and how a few drones manage to shake things up.
The misanthropic engineers, the monotonic human-resource drones, the evangelistic marketers, even the nontechnical but talented girlfriend all strike painfully home.
With few exceptions, they appear to be phrases ( bridging loan, wide open, Hyde Park railings ), adages or proverbs ( Don't be after breaking your shin on a stool that is not in your way, When the wheat lies long in bed, it rises with a heavy head, The water that comes from the same spring cannot be both fresh and salt, Better feed five drones than starve one bee ), and, occasionally, individual words ( beeswax business, grape-vine, stagnant ).
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