We were an office of 6 plus the owner of the company. We found out that 4 of the employees where spending about 20% of there day actually being productive. So we cut them loose, and hired 1 person. so then the 3 of us who remained were able to accomplish more than when we were six. The problem comes for us, when we are all working and all the phones are ringing, and somebody comes to the door, and there is nobody free to deal with it.
We do alright now but we are not getting as much done as we should. We started projects planning on the man power of six and are trying to complete the projects with only 3. It doesnt matter how productive we are if we are only half staff.
So while we all feel better because we know everyone is pulling there weight, we also know that everyone is pulling the weight for two, and that doesnt make any of us happy.
Now we are overworked, stressed, and unhappy in our jobs. But we are getting more done than before, but its still not enough. I wonder sometimes how we get done what we do. But that is life.
I used to work in tech support for dell. And as many know, if you can still support a company after you have worked for them, then that itself is something to be said.
I recently was in the market for a laptop, and was looking at the sony(memorystick slot for my camera) and the dell( because I trust them).
I ended up going with the Dell because for the money I could get what I wanted for less. But also because I know what goes on at the Support Tech level and I know how the warranties work, and I can't imagine having a computer(that I didnt build) that I could count on getting support for.
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I agree that the notion of this is wrong.
But also making choices for people, and saying that the user made the choice is more than wrong.
It is misrepresentation and that in some form must justify that it may be illegal.
IANAL but really, this is more than wrong!
We were an office of 6 plus the owner of the company. We found out that 4 of the employees where spending about 20% of there day actually being productive. So we cut them loose, and hired 1 person. so then the 3 of us who remained were able to accomplish more than when we were six. The problem comes for us, when we are all working and all the phones are ringing, and somebody comes to the door, and there is nobody free to deal with it.
We do alright now but we are not getting as much done as we should. We started projects planning on the man power of six and are trying to complete the projects with only 3. It doesnt matter how productive we are if we are only half staff.
So while we all feel better because we know everyone is pulling there weight, we also know that everyone is pulling the weight for two, and that doesnt make any of us happy.
Now we are overworked, stressed, and unhappy in our jobs. But we are getting more done than before, but its still not enough. I wonder sometimes how we get done what we do. But that is life.
I used to work in tech support for dell. And as many know, if you can still support a company after you have worked for them, then that itself is something to be said.
I recently was in the market for a laptop, and was looking at the sony(memorystick slot for my camera) and the dell( because I trust them).
I ended up going with the Dell because for the money I could get what I wanted for less. But also because I know what goes on at the Support Tech level and I know how the warranties work, and I can't imagine having a computer(that I didnt build) that I could count on getting support for.