Posted on 05/22/2021 5:29:23 PM PDT by DoodleBob
A few of them were very thankful - "I haven't thought about it that way."
Once I returned to the store, and one of the cashiers recognized me and yelled across the store "HEY - HERE's THE GUY WHO SAID WE ARE MORE ESSENTIAL THAN HOLLYWOOD!"
Most of the companies I deal with that are working from home, have delayed response times because they no longer are by their phones and computers.
Then they are delayed when their people are delayed.
So a part that would be ordered in minutes now will take a day.
That may be true, but to my point while Wesleyan will require all students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine prior to returning to campus, at the same time The University highly encourages faculty and staff to be vaccinated as soon as they are able.
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That’s ONE school…
Here is the full list of vaxx-requiring colleges and while some require everyone be shot (like Yale and Columbia) not all do.
Which can be spoofed at home.
Now, if they are responsive and doing the work, it isn’t a big deal. But I talk to 40 some companies in a week, and know which ones are working from home.
They are not working. Delayed responses up and down the chain, delayed orders, no answers.
So for some of these, I moved to places where the have better response times that don’t include a barking dog in the back ground.
“Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others are relocating most of their staff to India anyways.”
They can’t keep that up for long. Management expects immediate answers and that just doesn’t happen from overseas. Any attempts to get answers is met with stonewalling and requests for more money.
Minorities are 1.5 times less likely to be vaxxed. Colleges are creating Jim Crow 2.0 with vaxxing requirements
AKA corporate Stasi. In company I worked at 15 years, HR Commissar started out as owners Admin Asst. Dropped her Police Officer husband to be concubine/advisor. Acted as a Legal advisor with paralegal training
Her latest contribution was to be hard line against UFCW in request for raise which a number of competitors agreed to. Well, guess what, workers leveraged COVID policy stating they were exposed and could not show up. Resulted in missing many order. A former boss at competitor contacted me about process this company utilizes for manufacture ( outside NDA disclosure envelope-not personal its business) Getting a consulting gig at expense of former company-Their potential loss of millions due to woke corporate Stasi HR b**CH advice
Exactly. And poor managers need to see people in the office and they immediately assume they are working. Having managed remote employees for years and being remote because I constantly traveled, the shift to home during the pandemic was no big deal. For others who insist employees weren’t working if they weren’t in the office, the pandemic shift was really difficult. And then you find out how they manage. Most said they didn’t talk to their teams more then once per month. That’s crazy.
I figure it will be the Left’s favorite “You are not black if you are not vaxxed”
That’s a good point. I honestly don’t know why an employer would insist on having employees back in the office AND insist that they wear masks. As an employer, you are giving the staff a huge pile of evidence to support lawsuits or disability claims over an unsafe workplace, adverse health effects from stressful job conditions, etc.
My wife says it is. She gets quite mad at me if I crack open one at 1400.
Exactly. And poor managers need to see people in the office and they immediately assume they are working. Having managed remote employees for years and being remote because I constantly traveled, the shift to home during the pandemic was no big deal. For others who insist employees weren’t working if they weren’t in the office, the pandemic shift was really difficult. And then you find out how they manage. Most said they didn’t talk to their teams more then once per month. That’s crazy.
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That’s common in most menial labor jobs like in fast-food and grocery stores. “If you ain’t moving, you ain’t working and you find something else to do/ work on, like clean, take out the trash, restock or face product”
Shouldn’t be in white-collar work (those that don’t trust their workforce use crap like Time Doctor to take camera and screenshots at random a few times an hour)
There is also great value in seeing the world. Sometimes reading the headlines on conservative media, you’d think we are a tiny minority on the verge of being rounded up by a phalanx of Bidet followers. Then you go to the office and see zillions of people getting coffee, having lunch, holding meetings, and realize that yes there is a collection of statists but most people simply want to love their job, make money, and not have their home torched or workplace looted.
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Yeah seeing taillights on a 45 minute to 2 hour commute each way stuck in traffic is certainly a great way for seeing the world. An 8 hour job (sometimes 9) becomes 13 hours away from home.
I built a recording/ development room far better than anything I can get while teaching with an underpowered school-issued laptop or iMac (academia love iMacs as it makes their marketing videos look better) face-to-face
That’s a good point. I honestly don’t know why an employer would insist on having employees back in the office AND insist that they wear masks. As an employer, you are giving the staff a huge pile of evidence to support lawsuits or disability claims over an unsafe workplace, adverse health effects from stressful job conditions, etc.
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Karen Maskholes, for starters.
They can’t keep that up for long. Management expects immediate answers and that just doesn’t happen from overseas. Any attempts to get answers is met with stonewalling and requests for more money.
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Microsoft and Google are already de-facto Indian companies.
Amazon, Facebook, Oracle, Uber, Apple, Salesforce and others have huge development centers in India. They will reduce US staff before Indian staff.
“Shouldn’t be in white-collar work (those that don’t trust their workforce use crap like Time Doctor to take camera and screenshots at random a few times an hour)”
If an employer doesn’t trust his white-collar employees, WTH did he hire them?
Most larger companies have separate departments for that (i.e. Risk Management).
HR actually plays a much larger role in a corporation than the typical employee gives them credit for. If you are in management or in particular an upper level manager, you will realize just how important they are to have around.
Think about it, if they weren't essential, cost-cutting corporations would have done away with them or outsourced them a long time ago (like they did with payroll, travel & expense, company cars, benefits, pensions, etc.)
As I discussed with some on Freep Mail, the most important function of the HR department is to keep the company (and its managers) out of the courtroom. A good HR operation can save a large corporation millions of dollars in litigation and lawsuits - not to mention the bad publicity that can result from these actions.
So while the typical employee may see the HR department as non-contributing employees who are all about the "touchy-feely" with their endless politically correct memos on diversity and what not, it actually serves a larger purpose. Managers tend to see HR as their business partners and recognize their value. Speaking for myself, this past year has even increased my respect for them as they were constantly dealing with helping the company navigate through all the COVID nonsense. Every COVID case had to be reported to them and they were often working into the night dealing with these cases and coming up with the best solutions that protected the company and the employees. They worked their tails off this past year dealing with all this nonsense and keeping the company out of the courtrooms and out of the headlines.
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