Why does management say presence reports aren’t really scrutinized anymore? Bull, if anything they are used even more.
Why do you claim we have flexibility? Bull, we need approval in advance for Caregiver & WFH if we’re sick- that’s babysitting, not flexibility.
We care about employee well-being? Bull, why do you go into hiding every month to create next surplus list. Just cut what you need and let the rest of us exhale.
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Are you really focused if taking care of a family member or sick at home?
YES, I am 100% focused on what I should be focused on which is taking care of a family member or taking care of myself if sick. I should not be focused on work. Why would anyone be working from home if taking a sick day these days? If I take a sick day I am focused on myself and getting better NOT work. I never took a sick day for 15 yrs previously but I do now.
My Director told us they are looking at them regularly. Under six hours average they said was what would trigger a formal look into.
I still do 8 though.
- I'm already in the office. Thats 90% of the battle. If I go home at 6 hours, I'm not turning the laptop back on.
- Its six hours today. If they make it seven next week, you can get tagged immediately off of your historical data.
You get 5x8. Not a minute more.
@fq you’re so lame, it did happen. VP retired not long ago and the Chief of Staff is someone I think is solid, but I could never tell if the comment was meant to be genuine or pushing the company “storyboard”
“ “the rumors about the presence report has gotten outta hand, we want people to have flexibility and we don’t really look at those reports much these days. They served a purpose to find abusers, but that’s over now.”“
The above is completely fabricated. There is no Chief of Staff that has said, or would say this, under any circumstances.
@ee , nice attempt at deflection, HR lackey.
@af Stop with this. At a town hall, had Chief of Staff say “the rumors about the presence report has gotten outta hand, we want people to have flexibility and we don’t really look at those reports much these days. They served a purpose to find abusers, but that’s over now.”
@ag hey dummy, can’t use my allotted days without getting permission first, so I really don’t have a say. I know people who have had their requests rejected. If it’s my time to use, why do I need permission?
Ok, what did you really get busted for?
@OP
Because we just can't with you humans anymore!
Can't wait for the AI campaign to start ramping up propaganda about the great breakthroughs it is making and how human civilization (the poor kids) cannot have a future without it and on and on and on....
Stop me for the ones who have seen this play out before
Are you really focused if you have two boots down your esophagus while trying to cram in a third?
@a8 So you define “pulling your weight” by counting how many hours someone’s sitting in seat at one of this company’s dumpy offices? Brilliant business acumen. Were you once a factory manager in the old Soviet Union?
The outright mendaciousness flows down from atop the heap. The “underlords” are following their ma$ter.
@ah
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
OP admitting past WFH abuse without telling us she abused WFH.
You want the truth? Here you go:
- RTO is about getting people to leave or retire without having to pay severance. It has worked to an extent, but has stalled now since most people that would leave have already left. So now we have to do bigger layoffs. They aren’t going to roll it back until Stanks leaves.
- The Hub moves are about the same, getting people off payroll. If you’ve gotten notice to move, they want you gone; otherwise, you would have gotten an exception or no letter in the first place. If you still move anyways, you’ll be surplused within a year anyways. Better to say no and take the severance than say you’ll move and then don’t (that’s like quitting, so no UI or severance for you) or being ignorant and moving (it’s not worth it, do the math). If you got notice, your career here is over. It’s just a matter of when.
- All the cost reductions and merger activity is about getting the stock price up and shuffling debt around. Executive bonuses and metrics are tied to the stock price, that’s all they care about.
- The presence report is about finding any reason to PIP someone out of the business and give HR a reason to let you go. Yes, the report is broken, yes it consistently shorts people on purpose.
- Your union contract has a huge severance option should they lay you off, they won’t. That’s why they agreed to it. It would cost too much. They’ll layoff the junior guys who are cheaper to get rid. You’ll be here until you die or finally decide you can’t do it anymore. Enjoy the extra work that’s going to come your way.
- They hope the Market based culture will create competition between people. It hasn’t and is actually backfiring. Loyal employees are the only thing keeping this place afloat. Now they are holding knowledge instead of sharing and most people are 8 and skate.
- They don’t really care what you say in the employee survey. It’s required that they do one for compliance purposes.
- They don’t care what you think, feel or how d-mb you think a policy is.
- VTP and packages - not happening. Not now, not in the future. Those days were done over a decade ago.
Those are the truths.
OP describing the exact reason employees are allocated sick days and caregiver time. You really can’t make this sh1t up!
“ Why does management say presence reports aren’t really scrutinized anymore?“
Management here.
I’m not aware of ANY management that has been saying this, and I interface with several different orgs.
@aa not every day but sometimes yes. Are you really an a$$hole or just cosplaying one?
“Bull, we need approval in advance for Caregiver & WFH if we’re sick- that’s babysitting, not flexibility.”
Are you really focused if taking care of a family member or sick at home?
New column added on presence report too. Whether you badged into the “assigned” location or somewhere else.
“The presence report is back in focus again and being used for terms.”
This is a positive. Get rid of those not pulling their weight and meeting job requirements.
There is ZERO flexibility here at all. Stink made that clear in his rant off manifesto on 8/1/25
“Flexibility” is gaslighting.
The presence report is back in focus again and being used for terms
Did you forget about the part where they can adjust the reported hours for the favorites???