Strange that people only worked during the hours they’re paid to work?
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I worked at one company that was 7am-5pm for corporate office work. The company grew from a small retail parts company decades ago, but never changed the mindset. So even the office work was treated like shift work. Office workers wouldn’t even check email before 7am. Many times just hanging out in the cafeteria until 7 on the dot when they had to be at their desks. Further as soon as 5pm hit exactly, all the office workers would drop what they were doing and walk out to the parking lot with all of the other blue collar shift workers.
This resulted in things like Purchase Orders getting delayed by a day because it arrived at the approver at 5:01pm and the approver was gone. There was nearly no weekend office work, which caused its own problems.
It was such a strange place to work.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Salary workers aren’t generally paid for hours, but instead for the job.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
So you're saying they should have worked less?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It wasn’t a statement about more or less, but more flexible. The PO that came in at 5:01pm should have been approved, and the management shouldn’t have been so hardassed about being seated at your desk at exactly 7am.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
So... they knew the value of their own time and didn't overwork when they didn't have to?
Most office workers could probably learn from that mindset.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This worked the other way NOT in favor of the workers. Sat down at your desk at 7:03am even though you’re not customer facing at all? Expect to be called into a conference room with your boss and your bosses boss about your attendance.
Do you work in IT and need to work off-hours to perform work requiring downtime until 2am? You better be at your desk at 7am on the dot or you’re going to get written up.
Have a doctors appointment at 3pm? You have to take PTO for that just like an hourly worker.
There was this really odd notion that if you weren’t sitting in your chair typing, you weren’t working and would get questioned by bosses.
Office workers would learn (or be reminded) about how hellish it was to work a minimum wage job with zero flexibility.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
That is 100% not how you framed your initial comment. It was very much focused on how the workers weren't going above and beyond to work when they didn't have to.
Sounds to me like they were reacting to a shit situation in the most appropriate way they could.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That wasn’t my intent to communicate that, but on a re-read, I can see how you came away with that.
That was it exactly.
grue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Then you’re a chump for not doing it during business hours instead, rest of the company be damned.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which is largely what happened, and it was very disruptive to the company, but again, their rules, their consequences.
grue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They were still having 2 hours/day stolen from them, though.