Posted on 07/28/2005 by AverageJoe
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I had worked for five years as a salaried employee in the IT Department at my last job when HR decided to put in a time and collection system for the hourly employees. The workers were to slide their badges in a card reader when they entered/exited a building. Oh! And to make it fair, the salaried employees were to also check in and out BUT the reports on the salaried employees would never be looked at.
Fast forward six months, I'm repairing a PC when my supervisor walks in all flustered and mad. He tells me that the HR manager called him in and had a report on his desk. The HR manager said "I have been reading this time clock report and [averagejoe] has been clocking in at 7:30 each day and leaving at 4:00!"
Supervisor: "Yes, those are his working hours"
HR Manager: "But [Name Of Other Manager] Comes in at 7:00 and leaves at 5:30 every day!"
Supervisor: "[Name Of Other Manager] makes twice as much money and doesn't have a family also"
HR Manager: "But...[averagejoe] is LEAVING at 4:00!!!'
Supervisor: "Has anyone complained to you that [averagejoe]
has left while helping them?"
Supervisor: "Do you have ANY bad reports on file for [averagejoe] since we hired him" (He knew the answer to this one)
HR Manager: "No..but.."
Supervisor: "So, the only thing you have on [averagejoe] is that he arrives to work on time and leaves when his shift is up and you got that information from a report that you stated you would never use against anyone anyway? You really need to find something to do instead of trying to harrass someone who is merely doing his dam_ job!!!!!"
My supervisor then stormed off leaving the HR person speechless. My supervisor (who had been with the company forever) was not even reprimanded.
lookyLu (07/29/2005)
Where did you work...communist Russia? More and more companies are treating their employees like slaves. They forget...we DO have a choice. And as soon as the market improves and people get gutsier, these companies are going to be sorry.
Trader Joe (07/31/2005)
They started doing something similar where I used to work (for an insurance company in downtown Chicago) and they too claimed they weren't using the data...they claimed it was some sort of security measure. Security measure my as$! People who weren't "clocking" 40 hours were getting treated unfairly, but they never took into account all the hours they worked at home (on call support, work from home days, remote saturday work, etc...) Total bull.
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