My experience is that the typical employee will always remember the day he made a great decision and his production was head and shoulders above the rest - eight months ago. They never seem to remember the number of Mondays they called in sick or came in late hung-over or the number of times they come in late and four other people on the team are waiting for him to get there (and wondering if he's even going to come in) so they can get going efficiently or even get going at all.