I wrote here about flexi hour, and how it can be abused by unscruplus employees and why management should track down such people and have them properly removed.
Today we got a email from HR, informing us of disturbing trend of many employees coming in late and going home early. Anyway, I felt that what the HR did was messy, because they just sent out the blanket message and and assumed all those coming late as problematic employee. Worst still, most folks in my department felt pissed of with the message (Mostly on time folks), some had to stay up late for meeting with Europe employees. Anyway, I am interested to see one “chronic late comers”, how they will behave after the news. Most of the time, such message hardly had any effect on the chronic cheaters , but ended up upsetting those that behaved well.
As I said, the chronic cheater need to be tracked down at all cost and promptly remove. As usual, I am one of those that pissed off too. The company working hour is 7.30am – 5pm, I usually works around 6.40am to 4.30pm to avoid traffic congestion.
-woody
June 17, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Well, brother, in this part of the world, the society “believes” that by sending out message like that, “siapa yang makan cili, dia yang merasa pedas”. Of course, I agree with you. However, different people interpret things differently. Furthermore, different companies have different culture or philosophy on flexi hour. Take it easy, man.
June 18, 2009 at 2:56 pm
RM,
Hi Pal, I recommend a nice book for you to read,by Malcom Gladwell, Outliers.
In one of the chapters , he talked about society where communications based a lot on hint sending (like those of many Asian), and wait for message recipient to interpret it, can be a real problem. He also briefly discussed why message did not get across with disastrous consequences. (Korean air crash in Guam was one case mentioned)
If , too many hint were used to sound politically correct, the actual intended message will get lost , remedial action will come too late and its efficacy to cure the illness will be will be lost as well. How the term, too little too late, come about.
Thanks for dropping by..
-woody
June 26, 2009 at 1:37 am
that’s why ppl still using the punch card system or ID scanning system to keep track.. i hate it too!!
good worker always go damn early and go home late to avoid the traffic. and im one of the idiot! then i rather work as a pharma sales… no such thing anymore!! LOL