1. Stick to a set schedule. We offer 3 choices for workday schedules. Pick one and stick to it: 8:00 -4:30 8:30 -5:00 9:00 -5:30 Chronic tardiness will not be excused by regular make-up time. If you wish to change your workday schedule, you will need to clear it with KS so that there is even distribution among the staff.
2. Allow extra time for Traffic Traffic excuses will no longer be accepted for chronic tardiness. Road work, inclement weather, and highway accident frequency are all reasonably predictable. Allow for extra time in the morning to assure punctuality.
3. Check in/out by e-mail For time-keeping records, check in with KS by e-mail 4 times a day: Arrival, go to lunch, return from lunch, and end of day. Do the same if you must leave during the day for a personal appointment. The transmission time that registers on your e-mail will provide an automatic, reliable timekeeping record. It will not be necessary to keep your own time cards as well, unless you wish to.
4. Don't turn your computer off tonight. You will need to leave your computer on when you leave work tonight so that TD can synchronize personal computer clocks with the file server. We will make every effort to keep them synchronized, but the file server's clock will rule.
I understand there has been some grumbling about these changes, but we need to be more disciplined about timekeeping, and for now, this is the preferred solution.
Thank you, KM
LizD
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Gez . are you allowed to go the the bathroom without e-mailing someone?
holly231
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Girls,
what is most irritating is that the OWNER/BOSS/CEO does not put his foot down..he lets her do whatever the hell she wants and does not do anything to stop it. This is just the tip of the iceberg....I ahve posted other things in the past about where I work and what goes on here...its not normal stuff, and its hard to get a job where I get my health insurance paid for, etc...
I am looking tho, I am praying i have a new job before the new year...
I came in on Monday after the looong weekend, refreshed, then the emails from her started....I seriously got the shakes and I coudl feel my whole body tense...thats NOT ME...I am a happy and carefree person, but you screw with me this way, Ia m out the door...I have had enough...its not healthy and it stresses me out, sometimes so bad it causes chest pains...this is not normal behavior, OK I can understand having a meeting, laying down a few rules..but we all know the people it is because of, and its all the new people, it was strict when i started here almost 4 years ago, since then, it has gone to hell...but constant harassing emails are just not acceptable..I ahve to take 2, sometimes 3 major highways just to get to work, I already give myself 30 minutes to get there, but a lot of times it takes even longer, it should only take 15 minutes at the most....
I wish this was just entertainment for you guys, but its my reality!!!!
holly231
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If you do a search on here, you will see my post from Monday..PART 1 of this episode.....wshe REFUSES to have a timeclock, saying its like a factory setting.....
My dad has 6 employees (we have 12) and HE has a time clock for his employees.....
jenny11.9
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how awful. i totally know how you feel about being somewhere where you feel you are physically ailing from the aggravation. this woman sounds like a real piece of work. i guess the best you can do is deal with it until you find something else.
good luck to you - and know that most places aren't like this. hopefully you will find yourself in the dream position shortly!
jenny2penny
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Really stinky!!!!
Hopefully things will work out, eventually they have a way of, smoetimes you have to put your dues in first.
I used to commute like 1 1/2 hours to the city, giong in on a 4:45AM train. Sometimes coming home at 9:30PM.
Now I drive 25 minutes before or after rush hour traffic,,snd no train ticket allows me to afford my new car payments----IT'S GREAT!!!!
I did it though for 2 1/2 years. (of course still in search for better benefits though)
june262004
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I can't believe that. Im sorry but to have to e-mail saying u have to e-mail a time clock would be more efficent.
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Just for fun, everytime I did something I'd email them - hey Kim, I just farted! Hey Kim, I'm going to pee right now: Hey Kim, I'm pulling a wedgie out of my butt! Hey kim, I'm going to the fax machine and I'll be standing there approximately 1.2 and one half second! I've never heard such asinine requests at a job! Who the hell is management in this place??!
LOL!!!!!!!
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I think the policy (scheduled times and even the emailing since they won't get a time clock) is fine but the tone and the details are excessive, condescending and way way over board.
Good luck on your new job search!!!
holly231
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Loyal Staff,
Bear with me on this, we need to tweak it a little more.
As it turns out, you WILL need to continue to keep signed time-cards in addition to e-mailing KS. Please resume filling them out, and enter the times recorded on your e-mails. Give them to KS every week as you have been doing, with your hours totalled.
KS will enter the e-mail times on an X/L spreadsheet and total them at the end of the week. Our aim is to keep the differences to a minimum, so please take care to be as accurate as possible with your addition and multiplication.
No message is required on your e-mails to KS. Don't bother to type out a message - just SEND. A brief note in the Subject line will suffice such as 'time in' 'time out', or if you prefer, no subject line notation at all. Kim will not open these e-mails unless you ask her to, in the subject line.
You will need to be responsible to remind yourself to send your timekeeping e-mails 4 times a day. Chronic forgetfulness will not be tolerated.
We may have to continue to refine this further, so bear with me during this teething phase.
they seem pretty strict on time...so if you allow extra time in the morning and get to work EARLY...can you leave EARLY then...
so there are only 12 workers and 4 SUPERVISORS? and they can't keep track of their employees??!!! seems like the workers aren't the ones with the problem!!!
Kim will enter the e-mail times on an X/L spreadsheet and total them at the end of the week. Our aim is to keep the differences to a minimum, so please take care to be as accurate as possible with your addition and multiplication.
In other words...we don't trust you guys...
shamma
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This cannot be for real, I read your post all the time and it seem like such a joke, like this cannot possibly be where grown folks work. They are treating you all like chidren. I could not work there. *shakes head in disgust* unbelievable.
shamma
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Someone needs to send her an email telling her, with all these darn email she is sending, you cannot keep up with the time allowed.
TrayLu47
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Here's a thought - collect all the emails they have sent you in an envelope and go to a Dr. Show them the constant emails and harrassment and tell them you are stressed to the max and can't take it anymore.
Maybe the Dr. will put you on medical leave for a month or so - WITH PAY (b/c of what they are doing to you on your job) and you can take that time to find yourself a new job!
I think it's normal procedures to send out emails, but that's flat our harrassment!!
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I would write back that I am trying to get some work done but the constant emailing and clock-watching is eating up my time. Seriously, this is ridiculous!
Nora101004
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Sounds like it will take her more time to figure everything out then they'd lose if you were off on your time card.
swags1016
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Holly all I can say is I am sorry!!!
Samanthas Mom
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wow they must trust no one!
Teri
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just the word 'grumbling' would piss me off!!!
Karen H
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Holly - we have a hand-scan time clock and it's just as annoying! I'm salaried and yet I have to scan in morning, night, and if I leave the 'campus' mid day.
The really insulting part is that they say it's so that if there is a fire or other emergency they know who is in the building. BS - They would have no clue as to where I was during the day - it could be any of 3 buildings, a shipping trailer, or the vendor next door that we deal with - any of those are possible throughout my work day. It's so insulting.
I got reprimanded by HR for being 'late' 5 times YTD which means I was clocking in past the 4-minute grace period (my boss treats it like a joke fortunately). But do they acknowledge with thanks the overtime I put in???? Only my boss, not HR or the owners.
We extended our 'summer hours' to a year-round event - we work 15 extra minutes Mon-Thurs. and leave at 4:00 on Friday. The kicker is that it has to be a pre-scheduled 15 minutes. If I end up staying til 6:30 to handle an emergency or finish a critical project on Monday, that's just overtime - I still have to put in my extra 15 minutes on T-TH to qualify for Friday early leave!!! Auugggh!!!!
I can sure sympathise with what you're going through.
