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Today I was here 35 minutes early to make up for being 5 minutes late the other day....my customary 30 minutes early PLUS 5 extra.....that's how guilty some of you have made me feel....I hope you're happy.
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While I personally agree with the "15-minute early" ethic, I think there can be mitigating circumstances. Today I was technically 5 minutes late because I commute 42 miles one-way and was stuck in traffic. I am usually 30 minutes EARLY because I p…
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Is she exempt or non-exempt? If she's exempt you can't dock her pay, you can only discipline. If she's non-exempt you can also discipline, but I think the smallest increment is 10 or 15 minutes for docking. The "One-Minute Policy" would be a REAL…
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I can appreciate your apprehension. Spot awards given out by supervisors often reward the relationship you have with your boss rather than actual productivity and can have a negative impact. It can be a great tool, but only if your managers are we…
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Don is correct. If your company is not willing to face the hard fact that your employee might have to leave at some point there's not much we can do to help. It's not magic. You have to be able to use the carrott AND the stick with equal fervor. …
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Maybe he has "Joker Face Syndrome" (JFS). I suffered from JFS for years until I went to Boot Camp and contracted "DI Shoe up my Butt Syndrome" (DISUBS). The DISUBS seemed to cancel out the JFS....very quickly as I recall.
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Odd sustem, but it does not violate Federal law. What happens if a candidate insists on a "closed session?" Would that person be disqualified from the process?
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 11-03-03 AT 03:56PM (CST)[/font][p]If I was one of your employees and brought a soda to work with my name on it and it turned up missing from the fridge, would you launch an investigation to find out who…
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I don't see how it's stealing. Didn't Linda post a sign saying people could help themselves? Well, they helped themselves. Yes, she later took the sign down, but so what? It sounds like a non-issue to me, and doesn't seem worthy of a shift super…
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I think I'd be more angry with a shift supervisor using her valuable time going on a witch hunt for 4 lousy sundaes. Buy four more, hand them out, and move on. Life's too short and time is too valuable for nonsense like that.
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>I learned recently at a UI seminar that if you give her alternative suggestions such as take a cab, catch the bus, walk, local sick child care, (all at her own expense, of course) and she refuses, then let her go for "refusal to follow instruct…
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You can have special perks and parties, but if you're smart you keep it under wraps and try not to rub people's noses in it. I have a mental image of your office people partying up a storm in a large, well-lit palace while the production employees …
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As with baseball, there is no crying in HR!
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Given the circumstances I would terminate. Don't even ask the question "why." You just focus on her behavior and her statements. I believe the three-day standard for termination by the way, came about as the result of court and/or Arbitrator deci…
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What does the contrct say? If it does not spell out the details, then you could fall back on prescedent. On the other hand, if the secretary made the request in an appropriate manner I don't see why you should not oblige her. Believe me, I know h…
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If the smoker is following your smoking policy, then what is the issue? I'm not a smoker, but I just can't buy the munbo-jumbo that says anything I smell that I don't care for automatically means that I have an "allergy." I've heard that kind of n…
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Try this link: [url]http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9635[/url]
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You're correct: you should never have allowed the 90-day extension beyond the FMLA standard. When companies willingly violate their own policies trouble usually follows, UNLESS it's part of a reasonable accomodation for an individual. In regard to…
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-24-03 AT 08:42AM (CST)[/font][p]Besides using the time machine to meet Jesus, hunt with Daniel Boone, swap stories with Abraham Lincoln, buy Polaroid in 1941, Apple in '77, and Intel in '84, I would m…
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How the heck can you fire her when the CEO gave her the week off? Good luck in court. You're gonna need it.
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In PA a suspension is treated like a discharge IF....I say if...the EE has lost wages. I'm not sure how rewarding your EE with a paid vacation is going to motivate them to modify their behavior. Nice work if you can get it, but I don't think it wo…
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I would meet with her to get a clear picture of what specific behaviors she is referring to on the part of her co-workers with the idea in mind to tease out what your company can and cannot control. But I'm curious as to how she could have any cont…
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Are you in the Republic of California, or "Gallee-fornia" as it's now being called? If so, then I guess you'd also have to pay OT for anything over 8 hours in a day....correct?
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If I read you correctly, you decided to change the position from non-exempt to exempt, and increased the pay, but the EE currently in that position says that the money isn't good enough, so now the VP wants to offer a compromise....is that correct? …
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It may be lagniappe info, but your time >is probably better spent talking to the person that will accompany you >to that deposition. What the heck does "lagniappe" mean?
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Georgia Peach seems to have become suddenly mute. I hope she hasn't become intimidated by the passion demonstrated in some of the responses. We definitely practice "tough love" here, but it's worth it.
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Um, and welcome to the Forum.
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I think that the Manager and Supervisor should have received substantial discipline. The Supervisor because he was guilty of sexual harassment (whether intentional or not) and the Manager because he brushed off the complaint and put your company at…
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Make the Interns do it.
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Tell him that you're hearing complaints about his practice and ask him to confine his dental hygiene to the men's bathroom. It's a simple, reasonable solution. Don't get bogged down in thinking you have to come up with an airtight reason. The fac…