A query on work & parking
Discussion
Devil2575 said:
One question would be, why are they choosing to extend there? Could they provide another car park but it is just cheaper to provide a buse etc?
I'm sure the need to extend will be necessary, but it's the other decisions that follow from this that are less clear.
One example I heard was that a business decided that it needed to reduce costs. This was based on a very real business need.
One of the ways they wanted to achieve this was by reducing staff Ts&Cs, removing free coffee machines, asking people to provide their own pens etc. At the same time the need to save money was not considered to be dire enough to remove the company paid for cars and phones from several senior managers spouses, or for the site director to only have one company car and not three. Also the company then gave bonuses worth almost 20% of that saving to the site senior management for hitting the cost saving target.
Strategic decisions are normally made for the right reasons, it's in the execution that some pretty dodgy stuff goes on.
I don't disagree with any of that. It's one of life's constants that those at the top of a business will usually feather their own nests by plucking their staff. Maybe I should have said 'be able to show a genuine business need'.I'm sure the need to extend will be necessary, but it's the other decisions that follow from this that are less clear.
One example I heard was that a business decided that it needed to reduce costs. This was based on a very real business need.
One of the ways they wanted to achieve this was by reducing staff Ts&Cs, removing free coffee machines, asking people to provide their own pens etc. At the same time the need to save money was not considered to be dire enough to remove the company paid for cars and phones from several senior managers spouses, or for the site director to only have one company car and not three. Also the company then gave bonuses worth almost 20% of that saving to the site senior management for hitting the cost saving target.
Strategic decisions are normally made for the right reasons, it's in the execution that some pretty dodgy stuff goes on.
mp3manager said:
I guess you don't employ any physically disabled people then?
Interesting assertion ... although where development means the number of parking spaces ona site are much reduced the priority people forretaining on site parking are those with an operational reason to park on site (i.e. multiple uses of vehicle durign the day, regular need to bring stock, equipment etc on and off site - whenre thisd occurs on an infrequent basis one off chits would be issued ) or where it might be park of the reasonable adaptations under the Equality Act ...
Devil2575 said:
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One of the ways they wanted to achieve this was by reducing staff Ts&Cs, removing free coffee machines, asking people to provide their own pens etc. At the same time the need to save money was not considered to be dire enough to remove the company paid for cars and phones from several senior managers spouses, or for the site director to only have one company car and not three. Also the company then gave bonuses worth almost 20% of that saving to the site senior management for hitting the cost saving target.
Strategic decisions are normally made for the right reasons, it's in the execution that some pretty dodgy stuff goes on.
Bring your own pens for the plebs and 3 cars for the director? Good grief, I bet morale was sky high in that company /sarc.One of the ways they wanted to achieve this was by reducing staff Ts&Cs, removing free coffee machines, asking people to provide their own pens etc. At the same time the need to save money was not considered to be dire enough to remove the company paid for cars and phones from several senior managers spouses, or for the site director to only have one company car and not three. Also the company then gave bonuses worth almost 20% of that saving to the site senior management for hitting the cost saving target.
Strategic decisions are normally made for the right reasons, it's in the execution that some pretty dodgy stuff goes on.
Edited by Devil2575 on Wednesday 14th December 13:27
One place I worked for stopped buying paper clips. Cue several other sites sending one paperclip through the internal mail to the HR lass addressed "from the haves to the have nots". Tee hee. Redundancy followed. Being paid for bad times to end was a double win!
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