From picking up snippets in pubs or at parties to spotting brand names in sports programmes on TV to shaping up a troublesome feature article in one’s sleep, a journalist is always working – and so is Olin King, chairman of SCI Systems Corp: the Wall Street Journal relates that at the Huntsville, Alabama electronic subcontracting firm’s annual picnic for employees, there is a ducking booth where employees cast votes to select victims among their number for a soaking – but the voting lists are carefully scanned afterwards, for it is usually made up of the least popular supervisors in the SCI factories, making it an invaluable hit-list for weeding out inadequate foremen.
