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Subject:RE: Time keeping From:barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:20:13 -0800
Bathroom breaks?! Smoke breaks?! Lunch breaks?!
The company I work for allows us to take a single 3 minute break in the
morning, and then a single 3 minute break in the afternoon. Besides the two
3 minute breaks and a 15 minute lunch, we have to work from 7:00am until
8:00pm nonstop.
There is this program that counts key strokes. If we stop typing for more
then 5 minutes our manager runs over and kicks our chair, yelling at us to
"Get Back To Work!".
Connie, you have it great!
-Barry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giordano, Connie [SMTP:Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:53 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Time keeping
> Connie Giordano wrote:
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> Fortunately I work on a
> team that follows project rules, but gives you time for smoke breaks and
> bathroom breaks and even time to chat a bit with coworkers, without
> penalizing some esoteric productivity metric.
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