All last week we had no end of bitching about the new clocking-in processes. Which is fair enough as the new clocking-in processes are fantastically cack-handed, as you would expect from any process invented by a Policy Team that is ignorant of the practicalities and uncaring of their effects.
We have a rare staff meeting this morning (the occasion being that we all need to be told the new rules on election purdah and are required to sign a sheet of paper to say We Were There). Julia takes the opportunity to remind everyone of the new clocking-in process and asks if anybody has any problems with it.
Not a word.
I've already said plenty in another meeting so I hold my piece. Julia asks again, to confirm. Not a word again.
It's only when she's talking about absence monitoring later on in the meeting that anybody asks any questions about the new clocking-in process, and then not very much.
I shall remember this next time somebody bleats: "they should ask us what we think about things."
4 comments:
That heading is wonderful: it will provide a crumb of comfort next time I'm in a similar boat.
Yikes. Kevin, this brings back memories of the ancient times when I worked for other people... Brrr.
Now no one asks and I don't tell. Works very well.
Perhaps they're shy.
zmkc: we live to serve
Elizabeth: sounds like a system to me!
Pat: it is their major failing.
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