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spotolux t1_j4bb0o2 wrote

Reply to comment by Rosebunse in Paul Ryan says he 'had too much power' as House speaker by bomberesque1

I don't believe Ryan and his like would do anything. When he was coming up he was promoted as a policy wonk with convictions, the new face of the Republican party who would usher in a new era of modern Republicans. Instead all he did was cut taxes and flee from Trump despite knowing exactly who and what Trump was. He didn't do shit when he supposedly had too much power and I don't think he'd do anything if he made a comeback.

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MrLumpykins t1_j4ba19q wrote

Reply to comment by Aleyla in A woman is ordered to repay her employer for time theft by fartingfreddy1

I agree in principal but that doesn't make it ok to commit fraud. I would not choose to work for a company that micromanaged my time like that but if it was the situation them I can't just make up hours I worked and bill the company for them.

Paying hourly for work like this only encourages poor and inefficient work. Better to set a salary and expect the employee to finish the tasks assigned to them each day/week. But that isn't the agreement she had when she started working

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Geek_Therapist t1_j4b9nzh wrote

Reply to comment by InSilenceLikeLasagna in Addiction counselor arrested on meth dealing charge by deepthaw

I actually enjoy it. I always knew how to present clinical and build rapport with partners. I get to know the insurance case managers well enough that they tend to be more willing to provide more authorization than sometimes they would. I never felt I was a good fit as a practicing clinician, but I'm still helping people fight a system stacked against them.

I'm an old punk, so I like fighting authority.

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Aleyla t1_j4b8fg5 wrote

Reply to A woman is ordered to repay her employer for time theft by fartingfreddy1

I don’t understand why companies feel the need to put monitoring software in. Assign work. If the work is being completed in a timely manner then it shouldn’t matter it they spent 30 hours or 40 hours on it.

If the work is not being completed in a timely manner then figure out if more training is required or if the work load is too much. If neither is the issue then put the employee on notice. If it still doesn’t improve then fire them.

In none of these situations does it matter if the employee watched disney for 3 hours a day. That would be found out just from seeing if the work is being completed.

edit: Quite a few people have said that I’m missing that she is hourly.

Even being hourly I still think an argument could be made that such a level of monitoring would still not be necessary. If I ask someone to do a specific task then I should have an approximate idea of how long that task would take. If they then bill me for far more time than I expect I should start asking detailed questions. Bullshit isn’t often hard to detect.

If it continues then I’d either need to adjust my expectations or replace the worker. We’ve all known people that drag their feet; both salary and hourly. Good management should have regular status meetings with their employees so that this doesn’t go unnoticed or uncorrected.

The work I do requires a short daily meeting for a team of 10 people that takes about 15 minutes. Some of our group is salary, some bill their 40 hours each week. As a group we estimate the time frame the work can be completed in and as a group we divide up who does what. During our daily status meeting we say how it’s going. This method makes it very very difficult for anyone to drag their feet. If someone is taking too long then we dig into why. Sure someone could slide for a day or two but not any longer than that before the problem would be fixed.

None of this requires nanny software. I still feel that nanny software is a crutch for bad management. Maybe instead of constantly reading reports about how often a document is accessed or a mouse is moved they could just keep an open dialogue with their employees.

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