Lazy (Friday) afternoon …….
The HR Headmistress notes that today has been designated Work Your Proper Hours Day when the TUC exhorts employees to do the hours they are paid to do.
The publicity exercise encourages the average person who does unpaid overtime to finish the unpaid days he does every year, (so says the TUC) take a proper lunch break and leave work on time to enjoy Friday evening.
They have provided a jolly little computer game described as the ‘online unpaid overtime calculator’ (for use during their employer’s time, no doubt).
Come on boys! Many businesses are still struggling for survival, many more redundancies are expected this year and you decide to work to rule. Challenging times take massive effort (by all) to get things back on track. This isn’t the time for politically correct posturings.
While the HR Headmistress fully supports the idea of reasonable work life balance (and accepts that the vast majority of employees do just that), she also supports the very interesting idea of ALL employees properly working the hours they’re paid to work.
If more underperforming employees stopped playing with their online overtime calculators, surfing for porn, shopping or watching the cricket online, etc, etc the rest of us wouldn’t have to work so hard to complete their work ………
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