Some escencial things new companies that come from old failures should mind

I found this posted at 37 signals and it reminded me of some funny incidents that happened at the office I'm working at (not "for"), related to eating earlier than 12:30 (which was the established rule) and getting a bottle of wine taken away from Kim's hand (while she was looking for beer) with the remark that "you can only drink on Fridays"...

The post was about Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace,

Treat employees like adults:

We simply do not believe our employees have an interest in coming in late, leaving early, and doing as little as possible for as much money as their union can wheedle out of us. After all, these are the same people that raise children, join the PTA, elect mayors, governors, senators, and presidents. They are adults. At Semco, we treat them like adults. We trust them. We don’t make our employees ask permission to go to the bathroom, nor have security guards search them as they leave for the day. We get out of their way and let them do their jobs.

Surprisingly, someone has to write about it! so that some individuals with management-delusional* behaviors realize the rest are adult people too, not children.

* In Ecuador we used to call these people "the clowns who perceive themselves as the owners of the circus"