Quit Whining!

An article originally printed in the Ottawa Citizen [ref. the Daily Telegraph] Nov 3, 2005

"Stop moaning or Get Out, German boss Whines"

BERLIN - A German businesswoman has launched a campaign to stop her fellow countrymen's whining, threatening to fire her employees if they compalin.

Ramona Wonneberger, 42, head of a Leipzig IT company, said she introduced a "two moans and you're out" policy to clamp down on "negative energy" stunting the firm's growth ...

I especially liked the closing paragraph:

So far three employees -- two of whom had been given warnings, one of whom chose to go voluntarily, claiming she was being "censored" and had nothing to talk about anymore -- have been dismissed.

The story was also reported in the BBC News Jan 19, 2006