Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > Be careful with this. Consistency of enforcement is very important > when dealing with users. You can easily step into political issues > of "but, so and so is doing this..." or accusations of favoritism.
We've recently gotten bitten by this. One person in our division (we don't know who, or in which group they work) has been dinged for repeatedly showing up late, taking off time without prior arrangement and whenever s/he feels like it, etc.... He pointed out that the people in our group seem to do this all the time, and no one complains about them. So, now we are feeling the backlash. In the past, we have had a relaxed attitude towards people coming in to work late if they had worked late the day before, or being flexible in their schedules and working a little extra on some days and taking a little extra time on other days in the same week, etc.... No more. If we work overtime, we only get comp time in return. If you're considered exempt, then you get one-for-one. If you're considered non-exempt, then you get time-and-a-half. But it's still comp time either way, and cannot be used in the place of leave (i.e., you can only take it a few hours at a time, as opposed to taking an entire day off). And it gets worse. Methods and procedures that have worked reasonably well for the people in our group for a couple of decades (yes, many people in our group have twenty years or more service on campus), are now all shot to hell. Even though this particular group has only been in existence for about ten years, those methods and procedures were common in the other groups at the time, and everybody got their work done, and everybody put in that extra effort. All shot to hell because one moron can't keep his act together. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
