Is it fair to ‘let people go’ after their trial period because (obviously) they have failed to ‘always give 110%’, or should people who utter such nonsense just not be employed in the first place?

Huh? On all counts.

Please explain how at any point, any idividual can give anything more than 100%.

If I joined your company then put on 7kg then at the end I’d be 110% of what I was at the start, if that helps.

Idiots, don’t employ them in the first place.

Anyone who pledges 110% is a bullshitter

Sack them and punch the air in glee as they trail out of the building, their dreams in tatters.

Promote them to Management.

It is of course perfectly feasible to have 110% of something. 110% of cake, that’s a full cake, plus an extra slice. Mm, cake.

“I’m sorry sir, we’re going to have to let you go, you didn’t give 110% as agreed.”

“Well, I think you’ll find that I did. Can you demonstrate otherwise?”

Please explain how at any point, any idividual can give anything more than 100%.

At the start of the week, give them five tasks to do that week. If by the end of it they’ve completed those five tasks and are halfway through a sixth that they’ve proactively taken on, then they’ve given 110%. HTH.

Please explain how at any point, any idividual can give anything more than 100%.

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You physically can’t give more than 100%.

You can increase profitability by more than 100% e.g. This year profits were up on last year by 300% (although i’d rather someone said they were 3 times what they were last year).

110% of what, should have been the question as there are lots of things that are perfectly possible to give 110% of.

It is of course perfectly feasible to have 110% of something

In you cake example that holds true. Yet you cant have 110% of the available cake.

So if someone promises to give it their full effort the maximum available is 100%

B How much of that cake will you give me?

W 110%

B thats not possible you mean 100% of that cake and some other cake from some where else

W no I mean I’m going to try really hard to give you all the cake and the effort will make more cake

B Good bye you are not suitable for this job but you could be a spin doctor

i have nothing constructive whatsoever to add to this thread than to be in total agreement with couger about cake 😉 mmm chocolate cake 😀

of course you can give more than 100%. it’s easy, you just have to go into deficit. in terms of work, this means putting in more energy than is sustainable, so that one is suffering from exhaustion. a true 110%er will work themself to death, of course – this is the true measure of the claim!

At the start of the week, give them five tasks to do that week. If by the end of it they’ve completed those five tasks and are halfway through a sixth that they’ve proactively taken on, then they’ve given 110%.

Clearly 5 tasks did not take 100% of their weekly effort.

Did someone say cake?

110 % if i did that I would be working for say half the week
sod that 18.7% it is again this week
normally i do mid 20’s but the printer is broken

“Well, I think you’ll find that I did. Can you demonstrate otherwise?”

Yes. The most you can give, no matter how great, is 100%. Bye.

I wouldn’t work for a firm which expected me to “always give 110%”…….I’m a human being, not a bleedin machine.

Sometimes I want to go for a piss, maybe stop to chat to a work mate, occasionally to just stare out of the window. It’s what I’ve done at the end of the day that counts. And some days I will be more productive than others. I certainly wouldn’t hang around with a firm that came out with bollox about always wanting 110% from me.

And I don’t have any problem finding work btw……..I get phone calls from subbies who know me offering me work.

TuckerUK – Member

Yes. The most you can give, no matter how great, is 100%.

Simply not true. And tbh not hard to understand. As I say the question is 110% of what. 110% of targets? 110% of mean performance? Yes there’s some things that you can’t exceed 100% of but many things you can.

What type of cake is it?

As I say the question is 110% of what.

Well he has said 110% of what you give a company, presumably it refers to the employee’s input.

Clearly 5 tasks did not take 100% of their weekly effort.

No, but they accomplished 110% of the required work. If those five tasks had taken 100% of their weekly effort, would we be any better off?

Even if this is only 50% of their effort, they’re still far more productive than someone who puts in 100% effort but only accomplishes 20% of their weekly tasks, no? Or are we rewarding incompetence over efficiency now?

But do you get 110% of your wages?
Is it feasable to work at that output for 42 1/2hours a week.46 weeks a year.Usain bolt can run 100m in 9.sommit seconds,but he can’t run a marathon at that pace.
Most of all…IT’S ONLY A CHUFFIN’ JOB!!!It’s not like it’s life or death.

It’s not like it’s life or death.

Cake or death.

mmmmmmm…………..cake-again.

death by cake!

Proper cake? Or Jaffa cake? Eccles cake?

Just roll with the punches ffs

Swiss roll?

110% cocoa cake….

Now I have a craving for 110% of carrot cake

ie everything I can & still crave another 10%

I’ve eaten 60% of an 8 inch fruit cake so far this week.

I’m aiming for 100% by Friday am and maybe a bit of Yorkshire Tea Loaf in the afternoon to acieve 110%.

admirable restraint there wwaswas, would all have gone by now in my house (may explain the 110% of body mass – marriage date/now) 🙂

I is 110 % worried abit the stw cake addiction crisis…..kids be careful
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg[/video]

Swiss roll?

Arctic roll FT 80s W

Umm.. isn’t ‘giving 110%’ a metaphor? Do you have a problem with non-literal speaking or something? Are you all autistic?

Umm.. isn’t ‘giving 110%’ a metaphor?

Nope! It’s cock language used by cocks.

Haha that clip had Bruno Brooks in it.

I can’t see or hear of him without thinking of a mate of mine who spent 6 months chatting up a girl who worked in the local building society (dont remember which one but it was in Camberley), finally plucked up courageto ask her out and took her to a local nightclub that had been done up and was being re-opened by Bruno Brooks. At the end of the evening he said it was time to go home and she 110% dumped him and went home with Bruno Brooks – oh the ignominy 🙂