My biggest risk as an employer

[jerrymrc]

I start at 6 but am there at the latest by 5.15. Old military habits die hard. My wife needs a job and being ex military has the same old school ideas about being there and on time. has worked for NASA, Quantum and SI international.

[<MADDOG>]

I'm lucky, I have guys I have to kick out the door because they'll work without pay if I let them...

[Zundfolge]

Wow Sparky, what a micro managing, slave driving jerk. Your employees clearly need to unionize so they can stand up together against your abuses.

[SAnd]

If you normally get there early a delay won't make you late. I never bought into "traffic was heavy", or "I had a flat tire", or "it snowed" excuses. The starting time is the starting time.

[theGinsue]

While I was down in Kentucky when my mother-in-law passed away, I had the opportunity to see and learn a little about the nearby Amish community.

Lots of folks hire the amish to build and install custom cabinetry in their homes. When they are hired on and they are supposed to start at 0700, they have hammer (or whatever tool they're using) in hand and are swinging it @ 0700. They break for lunch promptly at the pre-identified time for punch, but not a second sooner. They return from lunch or any other break and a working when the clock meets the time they're supposed to be working. They continue working up the the moment that they are supposed to stop. If they feel they didn't give you 100% due to illness or what-have-you, they deduct the percent they feel they were off from their wages they charge you.

Sure, I goof off at work much more than I should, but I was absolutely amazed and totally respected their work ethic. Too bad we don't see even a small amount of that ethic in the rest of society.

JS (Just sayin)

[Anton]

When they are hired on and they are supposed to start at 0700, they have hammer (or whatever tool they're using) in hand and are swinging it @ 0700. They break for lunch promptly at the pre-identified time for punch, but not a second sooner. They return from lunch or any other break and a working when the clock meets the time they're supposed to be working

How do they know what time it is if they can't have wristwatches?

[Hitman 6]

Do I really want you if your going to text me "I need a personal day. I will hit it hard tomorrow".

You are a hell of a nice guy for keeping that person around. That would be the end of any employment with most all of the people I know, in fact my boss and quite a few others I can think of would reply something like "You can hit the new job hunt as hard as you want tomorrow, because you aint working for me anymore"

The way things are right now, it's an employers market. Get rid of them and find yourself some quality help man. Just my $.02.

[theGinsue]

How do they know what time it is if they can't have wristwatches?

You know, funny thing. That's what I thought too, but I saw a few things that totally floored me. I saw an Amish man on a Kubota tractor, I saw 2 different Amish women using battery powered calculators, and I saw an Amish store where they used a new electric cash register. I heard tale of them using gas powered electric generators to charge cell phones and tools.

I was told that they are getting a bit more lenient about that sort of thing. My thoughts were "Isn't the restriction from using those types of items sort of what makes them Amish?"

[Anton]

You know, funny thing. That's what I thought too, but I saw a few things that totally floored me. I saw an Amish man on a Kubota tractor, I saw 2 different Amish women using battery powered calculators, and I saw an Amish store where they used a new electric cash register. I heard tale of them using gas powered electric generators to charge cell phones and tools.

I was told that they are getting a bit more lenient about that sort of thing. My thoughts were "Isn't the restriction from using those types of items sort of what makes them Amish?"

Interesting, thanks. Kind of sad to hear, in a way.

[jmg8550]

I get to work and am punched in 15 minutes early. I have paperwork to do that I like to get done before my crew gets there. Does that mean I leave early? No. I stay till it's time to go home. If it snows, I leave with enough time to get there on time. Sometimes that doesn't happen the way I planned, but that is usually the result of some other moron that needs to learn to drive in the snow. I have always been early to work.