This work analyzes the types of compromise and arrangements proposed by private managers running public swimming pools. The problems generated by the change in management first lead to a strategy consisting in the exclusion of the most recalcitrant employees. Then, the managers strive to find compromises by means of a search for a common good, “a profit oriented public service”, thus reconciling the private sector’s profitability with the civic values of the public sector. This common good, whose purpose is to satisfy the user and develop proximity management makes the intermixing of values with the “domestic world” possible.