Monday, January 16, 2006

A right clock up

So, in an effort to cover their overtime asses, Corridor Land has decided to put in a time clock. Yep, we're being handed snazzy little punch cards to punch in with every morning.

Of course, the logic behind this is to make sure that everyone does their hours. But, any extra hours you do will count for nada...it's expected, of course, that you'll have a surplus at the end of each month. An uncompensated, yet documented surplus. And what happens if you're an hour or two under? Yep, you guessed it, you're docked holiday pay. Even if you don't take a lunchbreak, you get docked half an hour. Apart from pissing me off, because I sometimes miss out on a lunch break so I can leave a bit earlier, I'm damned sure this is illegal.

The socialist revolutionary in me is seething (picket lines and shouts of "What do we want?" and "When do we want it?" spring to mind...). Basically, it looks like they no longer trust all their workers, and are enforcing a new policy because middle management fucked up and couldn't check up on its own workers. As for my Corridor brethren, they're falling by the wayside in their stand against management. It's now down to me, O and a couple of others who are refusing to sign. I hope my days are numbered.