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...find them, Jaynes pores over vast quantities of newspapers and periodicals, scooping them up wherever he happens to be. At home in Atlanta, he heads for a local bookstore that carries the city's largest assortment of out-of-town publications and buys $80 worth at a time. "The clerk is always happy to have me do it," Jaynes says in characteristic deadpan manner...
...week's end the press began to depart, but not everyone was happy. "None of you will ever come back," predicted one hotel clerk. He shook his head sorrowfully, then brightened. "That is, unless someday Communist guerrillas take over Trinidad...
Airline-reservation computers, for example, closely measure how long individual clerks take to handle each customer and the amount of time the employee spends between calls. The computer takes note of any idle moment and measures lunch hours, coffee breaks and even trips to the bathroom. At grocery stores, optical scanners not only ring up prices but also tell a central computer how many items per minute the clerk is handling, as well as other information. Even in factories where employees operate complex electronic machine tools rather than keyboards, computers can monitor the equipment and alert management about slow...
...after using a more relaxed monitoring system for the past six years, imposed the point system last March. The tension immediately went up, workers claim. One PSA clerk, Judy Alexander, a 14-year veteran, took a disability leave last month after compiling 24 demerit points. Says she: "You're a nervous wreck. The stress is incredible." Observes a fellow clerk and local union official, Toni Watson: "It's a very oppressive way to work. To be plugged into that boob tube and not be able to move gets under your skin sometimes." PSA defends its system as a productivity booster...
Besides Wang, the other actors help make this movie a true slice of life and not a cliched fable. A registration clerk in a Peking hospital, QinQin as LiLi seems as real as the girl next door. Hiding behind pigtails and a teasing smile, QinQin makes Lili more appealing to the audience than any other character in the movie...