Social experiment

[Boris Johnson]

[exploited]

[Medius]

The problem with the original scenario is that there are two departments for which you can't get by with a generic job description. Production and Sales. And without these two, there is no profit. You could slightly adjust this model by creating an only incoming sales staff. That is, you put people on phones to take orders and create an advertisement division to generate incoming calls, though I think they may struggle with having no product details. Even providing a name might corrupt the idea and drive them one way or another.

You would also have to "fake" production by having some sort of complicated order form by which people request inventory to be sold, providing a description of what is to be ordered and sold. Then have someone on the other end in the "know" that is tasked with acquiring the things being ordered. This would probably end up at a loss though, having no idea how to price since the cost wouldn't be known.

[Nico]

[PoS]

This is like a plot from Dilbert.

[NAB]

The premise of this thread sounds like just about every episode of Trump's The Apprentice.

The most important factor is which douche get's to be "project manager".

[lil bit]

[exploited]

Not me. I'd try to take control and do something I've always wanted to do. I had a great idea for a new format of grocery store that I've always wanted to try out, and a big part of the idea is bluetooth technology, which wouldn't be hard to do in an office setting. After all, you can always get people to invest more money into your idea when you are at the design stage, and you've produced a working prototype.

[PoS]

[lil bit]