I don't know if it is a good idea. Our company website has the.ws domain. When I give people our website address, they always ask: dot what? becasue they always expect.com or.net.
I have to work in an environment where this kind of crap is very common:
>desc table_foo;
year number(4)
month number(2)
day number(2)
>
That's how dumb the "table designing department" people are. We are given tables like these to work on, and there is nothing we can do about it.
"Wow. I'm sure having such a bullshit tracking system really helps your company attract the best talent, too."
Actually, It is a government organization, and most of the employees are just a bunch of beaurocrats.
One of our jobs at the IT departmnet is to find creative ways to keep them comming to work, and make a profit out of it if possible.
Yes it is a fixed pay rate system. It has been implemented because we live in a wellfare state where citizens are *really* pampered, and *cannot* be fired from a government job for *silly* things like showing up to work late every day!
In my country (Kuwait), penalizing salary is not illegal, it is in fact a regular deterrent to keep employees comming and leaving on time. The place I work at is a government facility, and government employees in Kuwait have a bad habit of being late, leaving early or not comming to work at all.
We were one of the first governmental facilities to implement the fingerprint system for checking in and out of work, and it proved very successful. Most people do show up on time now, but just enough to cover the cost of the system.
Other organizations are now installing these devices instead of the old punch card system. I tell you, the system was so bad that employees were comming to work on a rotational basis. Every day a different person from a group comes to work to puch the late or absent people's cards!
But old habits are hard to get rid of.. Every month I carefully use my 7 free hours:)
It only works one way. If you stay late, then it's the same as leaving on time. Otherwise, most people would just wait every day a little longer after work to check out.
We installed a fingerscanning device a couple of years ago for signing in and out of work. The system works by allowing a person to be late at for work or going out early for up to 7 hours per month. After that, we penalize their salary for every extra minute after the 7 hours.
Since then, we have covered the cost of the devices from all the salary penalities.
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I don't know if it is a good idea. Our company website has the .ws domain. When I give people our website address, they always ask: dot what? becasue they always expect .com or .net.
I have to work in an environment where this kind of crap is very common:
>desc table_foo;
year number(4)
month number(2)
day number(2)
>
That's how dumb the "table designing department" people are. We are given tables like these to work on, and there is nothing we can do about it.
I have to work in an environment where this kind of crap is very common: >desc table_foo; year number(4) month number(2) day number(2) > That's how dumb the "table designing department" people are. We are given tables like these to work on, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Nope, dotdesign is just a small venture that consists of me and 2 other people.
The organization in question, and my day job, is at Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
"Wow. I'm sure having such a bullshit tracking system really helps your company attract the best talent, too." Actually, It is a government organization, and most of the employees are just a bunch of beaurocrats.
One of our jobs at the IT departmnet is to find creative ways to keep them comming to work, and make a profit out of it if possible.
Yes it is a fixed pay rate system. It has been implemented because we live in a wellfare state where citizens are *really* pampered, and *cannot* be fired from a government job for *silly* things like showing up to work late every day!
In my country (Kuwait), penalizing salary is not illegal, it is in fact a regular deterrent to keep employees comming and leaving on time. The place I work at is a government facility, and government employees in Kuwait have a bad habit of being late, leaving early or not comming to work at all.
:)
We were one of the first governmental facilities to implement the fingerprint system for checking in and out of work, and it proved very successful. Most people do show up on time now, but just enough to cover the cost of the system.
Other organizations are now installing these devices instead of the old punch card system. I tell you, the system was so bad that employees were comming to work on a rotational basis. Every day a different person from a group comes to work to puch the late or absent people's cards!
But old habits are hard to get rid of.. Every month I carefully use my 7 free hours
It only works one way. If you stay late, then it's the same as leaving on time. Otherwise, most people would just wait every day a little longer after work to check out.
We installed a fingerscanning device a couple of years ago for signing in and out of work. The system works by allowing a person to be late at for work or going out early for up to 7 hours per month. After that, we penalize their salary for every extra minute after the 7 hours. Since then, we have covered the cost of the devices from all the salary penalities.