What Are You Doing Right Now
-
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"
We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.
I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.
We've have to slog through till noon out west as vet clinics are open.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"
We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.
I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.
We've have to slog through till noon out west as vet clinics are open.
That makes sense.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We're either closing at 12N CST or 3CST
I'm trying to convince everyone we need to just leave at 10:00 but no one is biting.Why only one or the other but not somewhere in between?
Because Our boss is in Des Moines IA, and we are following the other department.
So what ever they decide and those are the times we talked about. -
We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.
-
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.
Same here, it's dumb.
-
@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.
Same here, it's dumb.
Not really - management I see has three choices, perhaps four.
- close at 1 PM - pay only for worked hours, employees can stay and work a full typical day
- close at 1 PM - allow people to use vacation time to keep paycheck at typical work hours
- Close at 1 PM - send everyone home, pay everyone 4 hours out of the company pocket
- close at 1 PM - send everyone home, people only paid for punched in time.
80% of our staff is hourly. If they were more salary, this wouldn't be an issue, just close at 1 PM and not worry about it. But hourly really changes things.
I overheard part of a conversation about this - there was discussion on just closing and sending everyone home.. but the idea of paying that much free time (option 3) was considered undesirable I'm assuming, since that is not the route they went. Some would say they had compassion for those to need the money, so they allow people to stay and get paid the whole day - of course, even though they are assigned things to do - we all know it won't happen.
-
@Dashrender 3 is the right answer.
-
@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender 3 is the right answer.
huh, this ended up being a lot lower than I expected.
72 people * $15/hr average * 4 hours = $4,320 OK yeah, this it likely something my company could swallow without an issue.
-
Wearing shorts on Xmas Eve... 70F today, beautiful outside.
-
72F here in Houston. But no wifi, thanks to Comcast.
-
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.
Same here, it's dumb.
Not really - management I see has three choices, perhaps four.
- close at 1 PM - pay only for worked hours, employees can stay and work a full typical day
- close at 1 PM - allow people to use vacation time to keep paycheck at typical work hours
- Close at 1 PM - send everyone home, pay everyone 4 hours out of the company pocket
- close at 1 PM - send everyone home, people only paid for punched in time.
80% of our staff is hourly. If they were more salary, this wouldn't be an issue, just close at 1 PM and not worry about it. But hourly really changes things.
I overheard part of a conversation about this - there was discussion on just closing and sending everyone home.. but the idea of paying that much free time (option 3) was considered undesirable I'm assuming, since that is not the route they went. Some would say they had compassion for those to need the money, so they allow people to stay and get paid the whole day - of course, even though they are assigned things to do - we all know it won't happen.
So just keeping them in their seats to waste money to flaunt how little they care?
-
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
-
Merry Christmas
Hope you all stay safe and have a good one. -
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
That’s called salary as opposed to hourly.
-
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
That’s called salary as opposed to hourly.
True. But its part of why we chose to use salary
-
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and whatever else holiday celebration you may observe. I am thankful for all of you.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
That’s called salary as opposed to hourly.
True. But its part of why we chose to use salary
Non-exempt salary I'm assuming then.
yeah we could do that, but it would gain the business nothing.
-
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
That’s called salary as opposed to hourly.
True. But its part of why we chose to use salary
Non-exempt salary I'm assuming then.
yeah we could do that, but it would gain the business nothing.
It's only a theory that treating employees well gains you nothing. There is a very strong theory that treating people well gains you a lot.
For example, how much do your employees try to improve their skills, work hard, stay with their job instead of looking for other opportunities, try to find ways to better the company? You're always telling us how people that work there do a terrible job, turnover a lot, don't treat the company or the career with any respect, even the owners seem to not care. So it's pretty hard to believe that treating the employees badly is making them money.
And more importantly, if you can't prove that it gains you something, even break even, it's a far better thing to treat people well than poorly.
-
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.
That’s called salary as opposed to hourly.
True. But its part of why we chose to use salary
Non-exempt salary I'm assuming then.
yeah we could do that, but it would gain the business nothing.
It's only a theory that treating employees well gains you nothing. There is a very strong theory that treating people well gains you a lot.
For example, how much do your employees try to improve their skills, work hard, stay with their job instead of looking for other opportunities, try to find ways to better the company? You're always telling us how people that work there do a terrible job, turnover a lot, don't treat the company or the career with any respect, even the owners seem to not care. So it's pretty hard to believe that treating the employees badly is making them money.
And more importantly, if you can't prove that it gains you something, even break even, it's a far better thing to treat people well than poorly.
The pay is noticeably lower than the hospitals around the area, so those things won't make them stay in most situations.
-
And what? giving them free money is treating them well? I'll agree that people should be treated well, I guess we just have different opinions on what that means.
