In many cases, employees became even more productive while working from home, either because they were happier or because they were making an extra effort to impress far-away bosses.
Now comes word from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that productivity plunged during the first half of 2022, down by the sharpest rate since the 1940s.
I didn't just 'quiet quit,' I QUIT. First they got rid of our nurses aides, so we were doing primary care in a busy ER. Then they doubled our patient load from 4 to 8. Then they replaced our security guards with Rent-a-cops. In the ER. Then they got rid of our secretary, so there was no one to call the chopper when we needed it. None of us knew how. And the Renta cops didn't know to set up a landing zone, so when the chopper did come, they had to land in the parking lot, in the dark, and hope they didn't hit anything. Then they gave me a naked combative drunk guy, and I realized, I'm gonna get hurt, and nobody cares. So when they called me to come in the next night, I told them to take me off the schedule, I'm done. They were furious. "You're letting down the team!" Fuckit. Rather be a truck driver.
ReplyDeleteRight on, good for you. It's one thing to work extra hours, but the rest of the bullshit you described is quite another.
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ReplyDeleteWe had some long term employees move on, which is OK. Leave your shackles at the door if you don't like it. But also, there is a whole world of things to try out there. So we used to be Good striving toward Excellence.
ReplyDeleteCouple months ago, It dawned on me that it was the bottom of the barrel coming in the door because there were other locations that were paying more (they are more desperate). A few months of rapid turnover, the trainers are not even good. We are now in a dedicated fight to get back to good, so we can move from Good back toward Excellence.
The problem is that it is everywhere. Plant managers with experience were not able to pass on their knowledge before retiring, quitting, or getting fired for no jab. Now you're having finished goods failures that are decimating a previously thin profit margin. They used to hope to make $12 million in a year. $42 million in losses in August-Sept.
Upside is a year ago they would get 5 responses to a job post, people who could barely fog a mirror. Now they are getting 100, and 80 of them are worth having an interview.
The unseen thing across the enterprise is pissing off your customers, they leave without telling you where your team failed them. Managers not managing.
Jerry
During my decades as a software and hardware engineer, I spent a lot of time working from home. The company paid for it, and the phone (since I was ostensibly on call). My productivity at home was consistently triple that at work in a cubicle. Nobody bothering me, ability to take a short nature walk to sort out problems, and most of all, privacy and silence.
ReplyDeleteI used to work as a network administrator in a million sq ft factory plus a huge lab complex and a full office staff. When my co-worker used to do network design work, we'd leave for lunch at 11, swing by a fast food joint, and head to the local park. We'd eat and then spend the rest of the afternoon working on designs without having to worry about interruption. Could we have done this onsite? Yes, but our ability to have an uninterrupted 5 hours worth of scribbling, drawing, and debating designs would have been easily interrupted by someone who thought their network issue was more important than our mission to design a network to keep the factory running 24x7x365 without outages. 30 years ago, outages cost $500k/hour up to 6 hours, after which they stopped counting. I survived one of those; we were down from Wednesday afternoon until Friday morning at 4:30am. The only good thing that happened was my grin while filling in a timesheet with 24 check marks in a for thursday...
DeleteWished I could've climbed all them poles to keep lights and power on just by using my monitor and keyboard sitting in a warm house in my skivvies. Nope the plandemic didn't touch me or my fellow lineman cuz we were essential. On the plus side we got the luxury of taking nature walks 14 hours a day regardless of the weather. So we could clear our minds and sort out problems. Is your power on? Yes? YW. JL.
ReplyDeleteI'm a funeral director. My wife hates it when I bring work home.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are all those employees who are just parasites who were never missed.
ReplyDeleteAny job with "diversity", "environment", "equality", "resources", etc. in the job title. You add your own.
Then sing Gilbert and Sullivan's "I've got a little list." Any version. All sing along.
I work residential concrete r&r 90 out of 100 suck. Out of the 10 left 8 will quit for a job at wally world or a fast food joint, the other 1.8 (y/y) will go back to higher education ... (point two percent love the job and the always on demand quality of remodeling). I've been in the remodeling biz since I was 10 I'm north of 50 now
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