On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:07 AM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote:
In a message dated 10/25/2007 1:15:00 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What would you do with dishonest consultants?
The same thing you do with dishonest interns, trainees, employees,
managers,
CEOs, Chairmen of the Board, etc. And it depends on who "you" is.
A "you"
with sufficient authority must be found to take the needed action
and who can
take into consideration all the repercussions of his action, such
as the effect
on morale if he does or does not do what many think he should.
Consultants do
not have a monopoly on dishonesty or making mistakes. Nor do
employees have
a monopoly on company loyalty. One size still does not fit all.
Bill Fairchild
Franklin, TN
Bill,
Point taken. Since the company I worked for was non-confrontational
the whole incident was more or less swept under the carpet. Except
for the additional person that was hired to keep any future
trespassing from happening nothing really happened. It was a strange
company as employees were extremely loyal and honest. There was no
money handling (that I ever heard of) (except for petty cash) that
was done at the site so honesty was really never an issue. They were
strict when it came to expense accounts as one time I got called up
and about a dinner I had at GUIDE and I had to redo parts of the
expense report. I just reshuffled the distribution around. They
grumbled a little bit. But it wasn't like I was extravagant I think I
marked down I had a 26 dollar dinner (I was allowed $20). (this was
in the 70's) . The computer operations was the hot spot about firing
people. The manager there was the "man". He ran his "ship" like a
captain in the 1600's, he let his managers get away with murder but
the peons (operators) were regularly whipped. Despite that the
operators were extremely loyal and really did work.
The company (division) was pretty much run on a almost family type
basis. The operations being the exception to the rule. I was not
aware of the severe politics of the corporate headquarters until I
was temporarily assigned there a few years later. I was asked to stay
on but said no because of the politics. I am sure of this had
occurred out of the corporate HQ that they would have been fired on
the spot. We had a few political people that worked in the DC that
made major mistakes that almost cost the company millions of dollars
and they skated through without being fired (although in truth they
were put in positions of less importance).
The point to this was that people that were not employed by the
company (consultants) were held to a different level than employees,
it was a much more restrictive level. Just by that level alone they
should have been let go.
Ed
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