Originally posted by huskerhomie:
Originally posted by jflores:
Originally posted by redfanusa:
The other day I was in a critical meeting regarding new federal guidelines being implemented that impacted tens millions of dollars for the department. The IT manager next to me (who makes well over 100k) was surfing Facebook the entire time. It isn't just Millennials we need to worry about.
I've been to a couple of the "name" management seminars where they basically preach the difference between a bad manager and a good manager is that a bad manager might get the average 4 hours of work out of an employee a day, and a great one might get 6.
Basically, its well accepted that between March Madness, email, water cooler of all kinds, lunches, football season, smoke breaks, and whatever else goes on in an office, your employer is getting about half of what he ponies up for.
Mmmm true to an extent, but then untrue to an even larger extent.
There are many jobs where there is simply not enough work for 8 hours a day for someone. Therefore during down times when there is no work to do, sure employees are checking facebook, or twitter or email or whatever. That certainly doesnt cut into "work time" though. If you are talking about a job that there is 8 hours per day of work and employees are only putting in 4 or 6 hours? Then that is a bad manager and needs to be fired simply put.
Also, lunches? Lunches as long as they fall within the required time of lunch that you are allowed is never something that takes away from work.
What the "lie" that you were told from that management seminar also didnt take into consideration is that there are a good number of employees that take "working lunches" because they are busy and they eat at their desk while doing work during their lunch times, as well as people that are working after work. Working after work replying to emails, cell phone calls, computer work. So they are indeed putting in more than 8 hours per day.
Those seminars are bubkis.
The moment you start telling your bosses that you dont have "enough to do" during down times, is the moment that you become "expendable" potentially and how they start looking at cutting costs. "Oh you dont have enough work to do?" Well I guess we can start cutting back on employees then.
I had a few "suckers" that I worked with at other companies that went to their supervisors and told them they didnt have enough work to do to keep them busy (kissing butt to try and get ahead)...every single time those folks were laid off within a week or so, as management started to reevaluate how many employees they actually needed.
This post was edited on 3/18 10:59 PM by huskerhomie
This post was edited on 3/18 11:01 PM by huskerhomie