Posted on 06/11/2002 8:28:37 AM PDT by BIOMAN
'human resources'. The term makes my skin crawl. Talk about someone needing a 'real' job.
And to the other posts: You will NOT have the two cents left over because it costs money to give you those psych tests, personality tests and urine tests.
When I took over as manager a few years ago in my company, the employees were averaging 12 sick days a year. I now have it down to under three days a year and I am still writing people up for excessive absenteeism. I consider anything over one day every five years excessive. (Though I only write up those who take more than three in a calendar year.)
I hate sick days!
I hate taking sick days, too. But I figure if I've got something contagious, I'm not doing anyone else any favors if I drag myself to work and give it to everyone else. I'll dial in and work from home, or catch up on reading tech manuals.
Otherwise you are incentivising lying about being sick.
GE did a study and found that over half their employees were taking exactly the allowed number of sick days a year they were allowed. They now give generic time off.
You sound like a real jerk to work for. Only a fool leaves 'money on the table' when all they have to do is take it. Do you want to have an office full of fools working for you? (Perhaps you do, it makes sense for some brain dead jobs.)
You need not worry ever working for me. I don't hire slackers who see sick time as "money on the table."
Ah, you must have worked for one of my old employers several years ago (a consulting firm in White Settlement, TX where I thankfully spent only 2 months before my paycheck bounced for the first and last time). There was a clipboard for each restroom with a stopwatch and an employee roster. Each employee got two 2-minute bathroom breaks a day. When we had to go (24 of us in our office), we had to go get a supervisor, and the supervisor then had to follow us into the restroom then fill out the form each time. There were no doors on the stalls, and two security cameras per restroom. This is the God's honest truth.
This particular company is no longer in business (probably because the supervisors were so busy filling out john-related paperwork that they never had time to get any productive work done). You have to wonder why :)
YES! It WAS Pacific Bell! How did you know that???
I've heard that excuse too. Using that logic, you might as well shut the world down. There's always somebody sick somewhere.
I always wondered why so many get the "flu" on Fridays and Mondays or on the first spring day it hits 70 degrees.
I only get the flu about once every five years despite the fact that I am around kids a lot and come in contact with many people during the course of the day. I eat right, sleep well and wear short sleeves from March to November (in New England). Many people set themselves up for getting colds by bundling up too much in winter or keeping the heat in the house up too high - turning the home into a breeding house for germs. In mid-winter, I open all the windows in the house at least once a week to air it out.
As I tell my employees, we get weekends off, holidays off, several weeks of vacation a year and five "floating" holidays. There is simply no excuse for "banging" out sick unless you are literally unable to get out of bed.
I think it's reasonable that if a person is sick more than a certain amount, that supervision asks the company doctor to follow up. But you sound like you just accuse them to your management of cheating the system.
People are actually more likely to get sick when their co-workers take sick days because now they have to work twice as hard to pick up the slack of the co-worker who is relaxing at home (or on the golf course).
If you really cared about your co-workers, you'd come to work every day and do the job you were hired to do.
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