reply to Cheesesteak:
Is there something that does not ever happen on Tuesday, which would influence your rating on other days when that thing might happen? No.
Do you rate cashiers every single week or is it only occasionally
Every week.
No.
No.
Does a particularly difficult customer come in on a tuesday ?
Is Tuesday payday for the cashiers or customers?
Would Tuesday be the relevant day for every store of this type in the nation?
In the world?
For the significant majority of them?
Would the best day for you to evaluate cashiers always be Tuesdays?
Distributed more-or-less uniformly through the week?
If we knew the logic behind the puzzle, but did not know anything about an individual store’s policies or schedules, would we be able to deduce that Tuesday was the relevant day?
Would Tuesday also be the best day for all other customers of that particular store to rate the cashiers?
For most other customers?
Would the best days for customers of this store to evaluate cashiers usually be Tuesdays?
Be distributed more-or-less uniformly through the week?
No.
No.
You judge them on scan rates ? like on how how many items they scan per minute ? You work as a cashier on Tuesday and therefore can compare their scan rates to your own ?
reply to Chronos:
Would Tuesday be the relevant day for every store of this type in the nation? No.
In the world? No.
For the significant majority of them? No.
Would the best day for you to evaluate cashiers always be Tuesdays? For this particular aspect of evaluation Tuesday is the best now and for the foreseeable future. Maybe not in a few years..
Distributed more-or-less uniformly through the week? Tuesday really works best for this aspect of evaluation. As a supervisor I of course evaluate all aspects all week.
If we knew the logic behind the puzzle, but did not know anything about an individual store’s policies or schedules, would we be able to deduce that Tuesday was the relevant day? No.
Would Tuesday also be the best day for all other customers of that particular store to rate the cashiers? No.
For most other customers? No.
Would the best days for customers of this store to evaluate cashiers usually be Tuesdays? No.
Be distributed more-or-less uniformly through the week? Customers could evaluate any time.
I do judge scan rates as part of my job, but not relevant for this puzzle.
Oh, wait, I think I misunderstood something: I thought you were evaluating cashiers as a customer. In fact, you’re evaluating them as a manager of some sort, correct?
If a different person were to take over your job, would Tuesday also most likely be the best day for them to do this evaluation?
Is Tuesday due to something about the schedule of the store as a whole?
Something about your work schedule?
Something about the work schedule of the employees you’re evaluating?
Something about your personal schedule?
Something about the personal schedule of the employees you’re evaluating?
Oh, also, is the type of store relevant? If so:
Is it a grocery store?
Some other sort of store that sells food?
A clothing store?
A hardware store?
The thing you’re evaluating cashiers on: Is it something the customers would care about?
Is there significant variation among good employees in this regard?
Is your evaluation something that can be assigned an objective number?
reply to Chronos:
Oh, wait, I think I misunderstood something: I thought you were evaluating cashiers as a customer. In fact, you’re evaluating them as a manager of some sort, correct? Yes. Sorry that was not clear. This is a true work experience.
If a different person were to take over your job, would Tuesday also most likely be the best day for them to do this evaluation? Yes.
Is Tuesday due to something about the schedule of the store as a whole? Yes. In a broad sense.
Something about your work schedule? No.
Something about the work schedule of the employees you’re evaluating? No.
Something about your personal schedule? No.
Something about the personal schedule of the employees you’re evaluating? No.
reply to Chronos:
Oh, also, is the type of store relevant? Yes. If so:
Is it a grocery store? Yes.
Some other sort of store that sells food? No.
A clothing store? No.
A hardware store? No.
The thing you’re evaluating cashiers on: Is it something the customers would care about? No.
Is there significant variation among good employees in this regard? Alas, yes.
Is your evaluation something that can be assigned an objective number?
Sure. Especially on Tuesdays.
Does your working week start on Tuesday ?
(ie, you have a Sunday/Monday weekend for some reason)
Do you open or close earlier than usual on Tuesdays?
Do you open or close later than usual on Tuesdays?
Are perishable items relevant?
Are any official employee benefits or other compensation relevant?
Are any unofficial employee benefits relevant?
Is the difference between employees due to…
moral character?
skill?
experience level?
work ethic?
When you assign an objective number to the employees, is that number…
a monetary amount?
An amount of time?
A weight?
A percentage or equivalent dimensionless proportion?
A score that is not measured in any unit relevant outside of this context?
Some other unit that has relevance in other contexts?
Would the country where your store is be relevant?
Is this specifically about attendance?
reply to pjd:
Does your working week start on Tuesday ?
(ie, you have a Sunday/Monday weekend for some reason)
No.