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I very much dislike the business mentality that leads people to essentially try to suck their employees dry, rather than the employment experience being simply fair pay for a fair days work.
Today, I keyed an amount of work higher than our target goals. I'm not exactly sure the final percentage I achieved, but I do know that I keyed something that should have taken two hours in 1.7 something, so I think the overall percentage for the day is somewhere in the %117-%118 range. This is not particularly unusual for me, I normally key very near our target goals, and exceed them much more than is expected for someone in their first three months at this job.
You might think that I'd be getting praise for this, or maybe even a raise, since I'm effectively doing a solid day's work plus an amount of additional work that would take the average person (by their own metrics) an extra 1.41 hours to do. This, however, is not the case.
I was called into my manager's office this afternoon not to get kudos for the job I was doing, but to get an admonition that I'm spending too much time on the internet. I keep some browser windows open behind the window I'm working in and read my email, news blogs, and livejournal (and links therefrom, generally on political topics) in between keying, particularly during the parts where our system lags. From the numbers, it's damned obvious this is not hurting my work performance. But apparently meeting and *exceeding* target goals regularly while still in my three-month training period (a feat that some people who have been there a year or longer do not necessarily manage, judging by our numbers board and listed percentages of .7 or even .5) is not good enough. I wonder if percentages of 1.5 or 2 would be... but probably not, if they suspect they can get more.
Today, I keyed an amount of work higher than our target goals. I'm not exactly sure the final percentage I achieved, but I do know that I keyed something that should have taken two hours in 1.7 something, so I think the overall percentage for the day is somewhere in the %117-%118 range. This is not particularly unusual for me, I normally key very near our target goals, and exceed them much more than is expected for someone in their first three months at this job.
You might think that I'd be getting praise for this, or maybe even a raise, since I'm effectively doing a solid day's work plus an amount of additional work that would take the average person (by their own metrics) an extra 1.41 hours to do. This, however, is not the case.
I was called into my manager's office this afternoon not to get kudos for the job I was doing, but to get an admonition that I'm spending too much time on the internet. I keep some browser windows open behind the window I'm working in and read my email, news blogs, and livejournal (and links therefrom, generally on political topics) in between keying, particularly during the parts where our system lags. From the numbers, it's damned obvious this is not hurting my work performance. But apparently meeting and *exceeding* target goals regularly while still in my three-month training period (a feat that some people who have been there a year or longer do not necessarily manage, judging by our numbers board and listed percentages of .7 or even .5) is not good enough. I wonder if percentages of 1.5 or 2 would be... but probably not, if they suspect they can get more.