03 Feb 2008, 12:45 pm
At one of the many elementary schools I went to, the administration was absolutely obsessed with attendance. They gave out larger and larger awards for perfect attendance. At one point they were just handing kids ten dollar bills for not being tardy.
There was what is called a tipping point. Children, drunk with positive motivation, started coming to school sick. Kids with 103 degree fevers were passing out in the hallways and fighting as best they could in their delirious state not to be sent home. They came to school directly after surgery, still loopy from anaesthesia. They lay puking in the nurse's office from nine a.m. to three p.m.
The illnesses they introduced spread like wildfire, of course. Students not so obsessed with perfect attendance (that being most of us) elected to stay home when they got sick. For a few days in February, the school was actually closed because about 40% of the population had the flu. Attendance was much, much worse than it ever would have been if those original six or seven perfect attendance nuts had stayed home for a day and slept it off.
Talk about irony!
The next year, the prizes for perfect attendance were much more modest. 
03 Feb 2008, 1:07 pm
03 Feb 2008, 1:22 pm
03 Feb 2008, 5:43 pm
sounds like the working world to me. The 'official' name is 'presenteeism'...
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