Alan Hood

I being a person, who has been around the block at least a couple of times, have never worked for a company that tracks your time as vigorously as the company I work for now. I do understand that with the sheer numbers of employees that they must control that certain expectations have to be met, but blanket policies that are strictly adhered to never work out in the long run. When you have a 40% turn over of your employees it’s hard to figure out why the company would continue to set and stand by policies that don’t really work in their favor. When you lose 1 good person and have to hire 500 more to find one just as good then it is a losing proposition for the company.

A good employee doesn’t necessarily mean one that shows up on time every day or doesn’t ever get sick; a good employee should be measured by the quality and quantity of work they perform while they are there. And a good employee would gladly work an extra few minutes to make up the time they were late. Alas when you have bean crunchers setting policies then employees just like equipment can be replaced at certain levels before it starts to affect the bottom line and things need to be changed. Never mind that employees are people with families who may be dependant on this job to stay off of the streets.

These directive are handed down from people I will never meet, and who would never take the time to want to meet someone as far down on the food chain as me. I will just do everything that I can do to make sure that I am in a position that I don’t have to rely on a company that doesn’t really care about me or anyone else who works for them.