A more realistic end of the story would be that the form refused negative numbers so he had to put 0 and got fired.
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> Bill Atkinson, the author of Quickdraw and the main user interface designer, who was by far the most important Lisa implementer...
> I'm not sure how the managers reacted to that, but I do know that after a couple more weeks, they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form, and he gladly complied.
Notice that it doesn't say "they stopped using the form" but "they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form". The rules are different at the top, they probably still used it to mis-manage junior employees who didn't have as much influence.