If only that would include having my lunch cut up for me into bite sized pieces and having someone wipe my ass for me when I’m done going to the potty.
As if the whole dress-code fiasco that I am still passively aggressively fighting isn’t fun enough, there was also an institution of “Let’s schedule all of your lunches” announced back on the 6th. Okay I’ll admit I’m post-dating entries to keep my blog up to date. But I’ll keep this entry updated as I find out what happens.
At first HR made it sound like it was just the CSR’s. We’d received this e-mail stating that they want to schedule our breaks, and lunches, so that everyone goes on the same time every day. And I internally laughed. Like that would work. They want to obviously regulate our breaks and lunches because we have a very strict and regimented 15 minute morning break, 30 minute (unpaid) lunch, and 10 minute afternoon break. And heaven help you if you are 2 or 3 minutes late going back to your desk.
Granted, this apparently stemmed from one employee who happened to be getting monitored and is getting tracked at taking 45 minute lunches. And when I thought about it, I could pretty well figure out who it was, and checked the day it was announced (today for me, 2 weeks ago for you the reader) and I was pretty well right on the money, that person took about 40 minutes that particular day.
Then again, it looked like my morning break took 20 minutes but that included the changing of the water bottle because I swear I’m the only one who does it 80% of the time.
So yes, there was a minor blow-up Monday night wherein the one owner guy who was monitoring said employee’s lunch then stated loud enough for surrounding people to hear, “If they want to act like children we’ll treat them like children.” And told HR to figure out a way to put everyone on a regimented/scheduled lunch & break schedule.
I was already formulating my reply when I was told to not bother because everyone else in the CSR department had already voiced concerns about how it’s just not going to work. And it’s not. I knew especially in the customer service department that I’m in, especially seeing as how we’re understaffed, but I’ve been getting reports from the other departments as well, they’re all thinking the same thing.
Mainly, that the management should sod off.
Well, CSR’s have a meeting with HR next Monday. (the 12th for me) Let’s see how that goes.
Meeting happened on Monday, November 12th.Basically it was, as each of the CSR’s would voice their concerns over why the idea of a regimented scheduled lunch/break program would be unlikely to be successful, our cries went unheard. Basically the meeting consisted of the CSR’s talking, and HR and management not listening. It wasn’t so much a meeting as it was a lecture.A whole lot of “We understand your point of view (they don’t really) but you have to understand ours (and the fact that we will make you do it anyways)” attitude.
So again we will go ahead with wanting to try this out.
I highly doubt it will work.
I really do.
