The School of Jack

[kevin wooldridge]

I recall the ocassion when a large UK contracting unit had to lay off a small number of staff. The unit had established a set of criteria for establishing who would be on the redundancy hit list, but it was a surprise to a number of folk when told, that having considered all other criteria (qualification, experience, length of service, skills etc) and found most staff to be equal, the redundancy would be decided by considering attendance and time-keeping. Some folk seemed shocked that supervisors were keeping track of peoples time-keeping and there were mutterings along the lines of 'Mates wouldn't do such a thing'. Personally I agree with Jack, it should be a given that people arrive on time and do their hours...or beware the consequences