Thursday, February 28, 2008

A Worker's Plight: Ventilation


If you have ever worked for somebody then you know that most corporations have rules and guidelines to govern the company. Things are not always so black and white though. And then of course you have inconsistent actions, the company says one thing in the written rules and does another.


Companies should now put the words "give or take" in their policy manuals. For instance, you come to work from 9-5, give or take ten minutes. Here is where i get cynical, how you gon get mad at employee L if they are two minutes late, but then you expect them to stay a few minutes over to complete task B. And if they leave right at five regardless of what they are doing then they are wrong. Not so black and white is it? Because if we going exactly by the rules then employee L should not be staying a minute past five o'clock. Companies use everything to benefit themselves (even though i guess it is human nature for most individuals as well).


And what does a job title mean. Have you read your job title lately? Even if the task is not on there its your job if they ask you to do it. So they should put employee L is to do B,S, and W "give or take" a few task. For that matter they should just say your job is to do whatever we ask of you. 9 times out of 10 you better not say thats not my job, because you may not have a job after that.


This is just something to ponder. But don't tell me "that's just the way it is" either because i thought we already had that discussion. Status Quo-denied!

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