Posted on 09/15/2024 8:45:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Badgers = the workplace version of scofflaws gaming the system.
Don’t like the rules? Quit.
As long as it gets done.
Punch the time clock/time keeping system and get the work done. Probably less effort than trying to game the system.
Badgers. We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!
Well said.
I 100% agree. I’d fire anyone I caught engaging in this behavior.
The bigger problem is that managers cannot determine the effective performance of their staff. By this time there should be established metrics. I know in my wife’s case, their working from home has created a more effective “regionalized” team because she is tracked on her production and through constant feedback from the executive team.
My daughter, who works in another hospital system, has no metrics and their management team is flailing to get staff back into the hospital setting (they are both non-clinical.)
Employees will always do what is “best” for them. Expecting them to do what is measurably correct for the company is some sort of pipe dream.
Management training these days seems to be a pretty scarce item.
What’s the average commute? 30 minutes? 45?
Who wants to go to the trouble of showering, shaving/putting on makeup, dressing, and driving through horrendous rush-hour traffic to show up for a few minutes, all to game the system? Then turn around a half-hour later and battle the traffic to get back home. That sounds awful.
Sounds like these are experts at cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
I bought beans from different roasters all along the way in Whitefish, Waterton, Lethbridge, Claresholm, Calgary, Canmore, Banff, Lake Louise and Radium Hot Springs. Coffee beans and baseball caps are my travel souvenirs. My freezer is now full of coffee beans!
Yup—if managers cannot figure out metrics that matter it is the managers that need to be fired.
Attending long and stupid meetings in person or showing up at the office is not a metric that matters.
The organization where I worked before I retired (pre Covid) had similar divisions where some worked in the office and others worked remotely.
The remote divisions easily outperformed the office divisions. The metrics were straightforward and easy to track and compare.
The remote divisions had sky high morale, could add members to the team (true subject matter experts) from anywhere in the country and could hire the best and the brightest from anywhere.
As time passed the gap just got larger and larger—by the time I left the productivity of the remote group was almost three times that of the office group.
Yeah, same here! Why for pete's sake is it called "coffee-badging?" What has it got to do with coffee?
Regards,
I’m for reasonability. A valued person with a looog commute? Compensate them extra or set the up at home two or three days a week.
While still working, CADD engineering, I usually kept a tiny window in the corner of one of my screens set to Free Republic lol. I know how I’d be working at home: I’d get some things done, sure, but I’d also be effing off some, too. Or running to the store or what not.
If your working from home there’s an Artificial Intelligence program being under utilized. Even George Jetson with his “Had to push 3 buttons today” works harder.
I’m no longer taking on newly invented words, myself. I’ve heard a couple recently by influencers or whoever but I refuse to learn what they mean. I agree with you. It’s ridiculous.
I think the “trick” is that the ride home is with light traffic.
The morning rush hour has ended.
It would shock you how many people do it so they don’t have to pay for daycare.
What I have discovered about my wife working from home for the past 5 years.
- She’s at her desk before she would be if she was commuting.
- She’s saved a lot of money on gas, parking, mileage.
- She’s answering calls and working while she would be commuting home.
- Her being marked available for extended hours, even if she’s not doing any work, shows up incredibly favorably for reviews.
- Taking a laptop on cruises (Including our honeymoon.) and doing 20 minutes a day of email management likely made her never considered for a force reduction.
In all seriousness you take out the petty nature of snippy women, office politics and the like I see no reason for many aspects of corporate life to go back to the normal of yesteryear.
That is because most any 3rd party company is encouraged to corrupt lingo so as to seem “bleedin edge”. No value, but the turd that approved their expense must point to something.
When I used to travel regularly to conferences and whatnot I decided that any such must provide me with a golden nugget — something worthy and worth sharing. Any that did not meet that minimum was never attended again.
Mind, not “the best thing about this conference”. Rather, this golden nugget justified the entire thing.
Understood, but still, even is half is stop-and-go and half is mild traffic, that’s an hour up to two hours wasted in the car. The idea of working at home is to not waste all that time in traffic.
It still strikes me as the ultimate stupidity to show up for a little bit of time and go back home just to “show the boss.”
They will catch on, too.
Boss: “Where’s Joe? This is his day in the office.”
Coworker: “Oh, he showed up for a few minutes and then went back home.”
That will work out real well for Joe.
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