Zappos pays employees $1,000 to quit

Zappos, the hip online shoe company that's pulled massive traffic via tiny ads in the backs of magazines, offers new employees a "Quit Now" bonus of $1,000 after the first week on the job. About 10% of call center employees take it. As John Moore notes, brilliant.

Why would Zappos do this? To cull the herd. Zappos has a culture where employees love the company and go above and beyond, and so it wants to know if you are in or out. A little cash today avoids a lackluster employee tomorrow.

l'art du déplacement

It's been a long week. Feels like we've been climbing a building, trying to see something meaningful, while running from the police ... oh wait, that's this video.

By the way, if you're new to parkour, punch that term into YouTube and watch beauty in motion as humans run up walls, leap alleyways, and tumble to the ground from 2 stories up without getting hurt. It's not an extreme sport so much as a martial art, learning to overcome obstacles no matter how high. Remember that next Monday at work.