Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used software to track her time

Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by psymon101 on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:37PM (#34374236)

This! A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource". "One of our team members can help you with X" at least refers to a person than a person as an object or a thing...

Employers must forget the 40 hour week as a measure of someone's productivity and instead set goals to be achieved.

Manage/Treat people like people,be kind, but firm, if you can't trust someone in your team, you hired wrong or you have trust issues yourself. Its not rocket science, no matter how much BS the Simon Sinek`s of the world spout out.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:46PM (#34374324)

> A pet-peeve of mine is when a vendor refers to someone as a "Resource".

Someone should notify HR about this injustice.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by dylan604 on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:58PM (#34374461)

Do you contact HR when HR offends you?

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by m00x on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:25PM (#34374753)

I was SA'd by the VP of HR at a previous company. I asked around, and apparently there is no one that can report that to except for HR, so in several companies HR can do anything they want.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by lostlogin on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:06PM (#34375168)

I have an insurances company that addresses me (a customer) as ‘Mr 142,620’. I’m fine with calling their staff something similar.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by Zancarius on Saturday January 14, 2023 @12:11AM (#34377537)

I now have a vision of this conversation:

"How are you today, Mr. 142,620?"

"I'm fine, nameless, faceless script-reading CSR rep. How are you?"

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by psymon101 on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:36PM (#34384399)

:) I just see it as common curtesy to members of their own team. Then again, maybe I am just old school as a 49 year-old CTO.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by blitzar on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:01PM (#34374500)

I will have my lackey deal with your complaint.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by prepend on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:03PM (#34374518)

I don’t have a set of clear goals and objectives. I have a very broad problem area and my job is “make this better.” And I’m salaried so I spend about 40-60 hours per week in this area. I think my employer trusts me quite a bit.

For task based jobs by all means figure out a cost and bill by the item. Some professionals do this. I paid my accountant $600 and didn’t care how long it took her.

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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by ilyt on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:39PM (#34374893)

Software houses need to bill client for something and usually that is just number_of_hours * rate, where is the push for "accurate" reporting comes from.

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