约翰是一名伐木工人,他为公司干了五年却从来没有得到提升。公司雇用了比尔,比尔在一年内就得到了提升。这件事引起了约翰的不满,于是他去找老板理论。老板说:“你现在的伐木量与五年前的一样多,我们是计件公司,如果你的伐木量能加大,我们会乐意提升你。”约翰回去后更加努力地工作,并且花费了更长的时间来工作,可他仍旧不能砍伐更多的树木。他回到老板那里道出他的困境,老板让约翰去和比尔谈谈:“也许有些事只有比尔 John was a lumberjack. He worked for the company for five years but never improved. The company hired Bill and Bill improved within a year. This incident caused John’s dissatisfaction, so he went to the boss theory. The boss said: ”You are now logging as much as you were five years ago. We are a piece-rate company. If you can increase the amount of logging, we will be happy to upgrade you.“ John went back to work harder and spend more. For a longer time to work, he still cannot cut more trees. He returned to his boss and told him his predicament. The boss asked John to talk to Bill: ”Maybe there’s only something Bill