Bitching About Time At Work

Today we got a note from the boss reminding us of what our hours of work are supposed to be.

IE it was a big fat signpost telling us she thinks we are not working all the hours we are supposed to .. and we aren't covering lunch breaks properly.

This of course only serves to piss everyone off and start yet another round of discussion about what hours we all actually do work, and how we thought we did a pretty good job of covering considering we are understaffed right now. As usual.

We also wondered how it is that we never know what hours she and our immediate boss keep - let alone where they are when they leave the room. I guess they don't have to say.

It just reminded me of some line I read in a management textbook sometime once - if you treat people like children they will act like children.

It is all very disheartening. And downright irritating.

Our supervisor is a guy who arrives after everyone, and leaves before everyone. He lives about a million miles away and has a train trip home that takes more than an hour. Poor baby. Buy another house!

As my dear old Dad would have said "don't tell me your problems!"

Exactly.