@pluralistic I got written up for not answering my cell at the urinal.
Fun job but my boss would get weird occasionally. I think she saw me go in and wanted to prove a point about commitment to the job. I was just like, yes let's write this down.
@pluralistic Tempting to think this is a joke but seems consistent with my experience of CC. For example, a nurse at CC told me she was timed, 20 minutes per patient, apparently including recordkeeping as that is pretty much all she did. She was very good at that & timekeeping but nothing else, btw.
@hungryjoe@pluralistic this is a common misunderstanding. The average person spends no time pooping at all. Pooping George is an outlier and should not be counted.
@pluralistic this would be a marvellous lead-in for a statistics class about the mean and the variance and common statistical foul-ups in everyday management.
@pluralistic I’m curious how much company time and money was spent on this. Researching technology on light timers, identify/purchase said lights, pay for electrician to install, write up these signs, and then the long resource tail associated with monitoring & enforcing this long term. Imagine being that boss and pitching this the board. “I want to spend $1500 up front and commit 0.25 FTE on an ongoing basis to the poop tracking project.” What is the PPT that went with that pitch, you think?
@pluralistic On one hand… Pooping on company time has been hi lighted in the past as a way to steal time from your employer without them being able to do a thing about it. So it is abused. And apparently this company has had enough.
On the other hand… How mad do you have to get about it to basically put your employees bathroom breaks on a shot clock?
@gangrif@pluralistic honestly the commute to and from work is taking time from the employee and the job doesn't pay for that so it evens out. Actually it doesn't even out people should be paid for their commute.
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