Posted on 12/06/2021 4:36:36 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Good for him but this shouldn't even exist. In reality it is nothing but anti-white policy.
“So, just saying to tie this in to the post this employer knew what was up.”
Very true, and most likely he has access to far more parameters, like keystrokes, mouse movements, etc. But why disclose everything?
This is EXACTLY how I was laid off in 2012. The 50 of us Underwriters on the conference call were told in 1 minute that we’re have an overnight envelope outlining our severance package. It’s a corporate thing. You want their paycheck, you play their game.
Which is why I’m in a startup technology company, LLC now.
Laz’ll dazzle. If you give him half a chance.
How?
I’m the only person on my time who is doing in-person audits without management begging me to do so.
The rest are too scared of Covid, or using the excuse that they don’t want to take the chance of bringing it back and infecting their family, including their elderly mother whom they might visit only once a month.
I shouldn’t let it bother me as much as it does because I like getting out and what they do or don’t do really hasn’t impacted my workload all that much.
I’ve been having nightmares lately where my boss has quit and management has pressured me to take her job. I absolutely would not want to to do this in real life.
“Good. I think a lot of people are taking advantage of “working from home”.
It’s not or should not be about hours worked but production. There is a phrase relating to employees saying, “eighty percent of the work is produced by twenty percent of the workforce”.
As the past owner of a smaller business and as part of senior management in a mid to large business I found this to be the case.
KPI’s are different for different companies. In the one I am employed at, the KPI’s mostly look at software bugs... things that make it to SIT, things that make it to QA, bugs in Production, speed of resolution, and so on.
When I was working I used to take vacations down around Clearwater, St Pete area or Sarasota and take my laptop with me and my cell phone from work and every day I would take that laptop out while I was on vacation and keep current and keep up-to-date so that when I got back to the office there was no gigantic hiccup because I was gone for two weeks on vacation.
The boss loved me.
But I’m not gloating because the younger people on staff started doing it too and together we all turned into a highly effecient and effective technical team.
Great company.
Will my mortgage refinance phone calls now increase or decrease?
Shhhhhh! Don’t speak any truth here...
Sometimes, some of us just get obsessed with work. Especially if we have fallen in love with it.
Guilty as charged.
Wow, sorry to hear you’re getting run down! I somehow have harnessed a long-term spurt of energy and am excelling. My work weeks are more reasonable than yours, though. I seem to be averaging 45-55 hours. Not bad at all.
Now, the deal is, you (hopefully) fixed the issue! If you did then you deserve massive kudos.
I’ve been waiting to see how long people could work from home unsupervised.
That's GREAT! I am SO stealing that. :)
I am raced this saying about 15 years ago:
We don’t have poor employees. We have poured a managed employees. I retired from a large corporation several months ago, and I can tell you that’s exactly the problem that’s going on there. And the proof is that we were so unproductive even when we tried to be productive, that those that took their positions seriously but are too young to retire have moved on to other companies. Or other departments within that same company. And the ones that remain in the department are getting, for lack of a better word, testy.
The stress of getting a good paycheck for really doing little work is what finally got me to retire. And at this stage of my life and with the goals that I have, changing companies wasn’t really a practical alternative.
On a side note, I’m loving it! My productivity is shot through the roof, but I’m doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do to earn a paycheck.
I've been steadily posting here. :)
Thanks for the concern!
Thanks! In our company, since we are slowly migrating to cloud, the two kinds of Architects are blended. I will be both: Systems Architect and Cloud Architect.
I believe for years, decades actually, that you need to “be here, now”. This means that when I want a vacation with my family I never took a laptop with me and never even looked at work email. My focus was on my family time. I was never preoccupied with work stuff when on vacation.
My manager when I first entered it in 1983 had a plaque on her wall that said this: “nobody, on their deathbed, ever said,’I wish I’d spent more time at work’”.
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