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Doing Your Job

Doing Your Job, what does that mean to you? (More than 1 answer OK)

  • Even the smallest rules must be observed religiously and infractions punished

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Rules are guidelines, occasional small variances are part of life

    Votes: 23 69.7%

  • What, me work?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • There are some environments where close observance of posted rules may be critical

    Votes: 22 66.7%

  • Break as many rules as you want, just don't get caught

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Be reasonable, if your lapses might harm others, just be more careful

    Votes: 12 36.4%

  • Rules are silly

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rules are important

    Votes: 12 36.4%

  • Rules are important, they just don't apply to me

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • Total voters
    33
Lucille

Lucille

New member
There has to be a middle road. I recently heard a tale about a woman where I work who in the past would watch people come into work in the morning, write down the time, and take that info to management if the employees were even a couple minutes late.

At the other end of the spectrum is this story in this morning's New York Times detailing a security company that seems horrifyingly unprofessional:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/world/asia/12secure.html?th&emc=th


In these economic times, a job is good to have and I personally feel one should respect one's employer, try to be on time, and in general do one's job. But I also feel that micromanagement reduces productivity, and that making an issue of an occasional variance is counterproductive.

What do you think?
 
lucillle said:
In these economic times, a job is good to have and I personally feel one should respect one's employer, try to be on time, and in general do one's job. But I also feel that micromanagement reduces productivity, and that making an issue of an occasional variance is counterproductive.

What do you think?
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I have to agree with you on the above statement.
 
Rules in the work place and rules for your job are two different thing IMO...
As far as the work place goes, I slope off from my job from time to time, or go for a quick chat now and again. Both of these things are frowned upon, but if it's just occasionally, I can't see a major problem with it... On the other hand certain rules are laid down by the powers to be concerning the right way things have to be done. Recently the temps were up in the 30's, I had to wear full PPE, (hood, flame retardant overalls, safety glasses, BA, Boots, gauntlets, the full works) and the job had a pre heat of 125c minimum. The PPE although a pain was there for my protection, and the pre heat had been worked out by some boffin in a white coat and was important to the service life of the components.
Together they made my life so hot that day, but they were important to the safety of me and others..... So some rules have to be followed to the letter and any deviation shouldn't be tolerated.... On the other hand, other rules are there as a guide and getting around them is all part of working.....
It's just understanding how important the rules are and why they are in place....
 
Rules vary depending upon your perspective. My office manager has different sets of rules for different people. Her "pets" can do no wrong but the rest of us must not only do our jobs, but cover the slack created by the "pets" and not complain or else we get written up and eventually fired.
 
Susan said:
Rules vary depending upon your perspective. My office manager has different sets of rules for different people. Her "pets" can do no wrong but the rest of us must not only do our jobs, but cover the slack created by the "pets" and not complain or else we get written up and eventually fired.
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That sucks. There's office politics everywhere but your office manager sounds like a real piece of work
 
Geez Susan, do you secretly work at my vet hospital? Same situation with my manager. :/ Hope to be leaving there soon.
 
Shiari said:
Geez Susan, do you secretly work at my vet hospital? Same situation with my manager. :/ Hope to be leaving there soon.
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Is your office manager the 3rd wife of the vet who he is supposed to be divorcing but still hasn't after 9 months and who he still needs in the office to "manage" things even though he has at least one other person there that is more than capable of doing a much better job as office manager (and that person is NOT me because I sure as heck don't want that job)?
 
If breaking a rule is going to cause actual harm to yourself or others, then it should be observed.

However, things like surfing on company time was more of a moral grey area for me before I was a student. I found that I could multi-task - surf and work at the same time. I was still more productive than other staff (I kept getting pay rises and bonuses specifically for that) but my internet use profile looked like I didn't do a stroke of work all day.

In hindsight my surfing may not have harmed my own productivity, but it made other staff resentful towards me (the team responsible for internet use decided to publicise my stats) and made me look as though management was being unfair by treating me more favourably than other people. I guess my behaviour still harmed the company in terms of department morale and the indirect effect I had on others.

I hope I'll do it differently next time - maybe stick to surfing during designated breaks.
 
I work by the rules set, but my employer doesn't. The job I have is every eronomically not healthy, we use to have 2 people by me and switch off every 2 hours. Now because numbers have dropped I get to do it by my self for anywhere from 8 to 10 hours a day.
I truly try to work by the rules but is hard when you have to do it all by yourself.
 
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