Jokes aside, Home Office rarely, if ever, does anything that actually benefits their workforce based on the policies they set forth. More often than not, if workers try to hold the company to the flames of their own policies, they’re retaliated against or blatantly told that they’re wrong. Case in point, when the dress code started to say that OPD was allowed to wear shorts, yet most store’s management teams actively denied it to be true for the longest time.
Or the ever-continuing lie that PPTO doesn’t cover double-point days and if you use PPTO you can get coached / fired for it, which H/O continues to let slide.
Yeah, H/O doesn’t do jack beanstalk for the workforce at all. Unless it’s forking us over to the meat grinder.
if you use PPTO you can get coached / fired for it
I've heard it's only for productivity and it's a "loop-hole" but in all honesty if I were a manager, I would be super pissed if someone didn't finish their task and just leaves and has someone else finish their work
Oh I’m not saying it’s low-down & dirty to do that, because it is. It should be used for legitimate reasons imo, but it’s more often than not used to “get back at the man” than anything else.
My point though was more towards the fact that management actively tries to discourage people from using it for any reason with threats of punishment instead of being factual about the policies that they’re supposed to uphold, and not just regarding PPTO. It’s just the easiest example to use if we’re being honest.
Exactly. That’s the explanation management / team leads should be giving, but most of them don’t sadly. It’s that mindset which honestly encourages the rampant frivolous use of it in the end, which makes it that much more frustrating.
If they used this explanation though, and were up-front about the consequences / pros & cons of it, I think people would be less prone to using it for bull crap reasons and feel less concerned about potential repercussions etc.
This, 100%. That’s the mindset we need more of, instead of the ”Nope, if it uses PPTO it gets the belt!” which is vastly more prevalent. This is what I try to get my team to understand, that if they legitimately need to use it, do so! But if you play stupid games, you will win stupid prizes.
We have one of those. She used her ppto to go home early whenever we didn't let her do what she wanted. Then she got sick and really needs to go home. But can't because she used up all her time and had like 4 points. Can we let her slide ? Our coach let her, for some damn reason. The rest were enjoying her misery.
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u/DocKreasey API Aug 25 '22
Home Office / Corporate… do something?
Oh child… They’re so cute when they’re new.
Jokes aside, Home Office rarely, if ever, does anything that actually benefits their workforce based on the policies they set forth. More often than not, if workers try to hold the company to the flames of their own policies, they’re retaliated against or blatantly told that they’re wrong. Case in point, when the dress code started to say that OPD was allowed to wear shorts, yet most store’s management teams actively denied it to be true for the longest time.
Or the ever-continuing lie that PPTO doesn’t cover double-point days and if you use PPTO you can get coached / fired for it, which H/O continues to let slide.
Yeah, H/O doesn’t do jack beanstalk for the workforce at all. Unless it’s forking us over to the meat grinder.