Posted on 08/21/2014 8:24:54 AM PDT by MNDude
what did they do with employees that didn’t have their own device? Fire them if they didn’t get one?
This doesn’t affect me,I’m retired,but for some strange reason I found the article fascinating.
I’ll have to alert my kids-—and grand kids.:-)
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I was the guy who made that decision. Saves our company a cool 350,000/annum.
You can bet I plan on doing just that. Up to and including an email to the CEO of the bank letting him know that his "drive down expenses" program is screwing employees who identify and implement real cost savings to the bank ...
I had a similar experience stateside.
At my last office at the Pentagon before I retired I was one of the two lowest ranking officers. I was a Captain in a LtCol billet. Anyway, they relied on me to do a lion's share of the work because I was the only one there with degrees in Engineering and Physics and they dealt with a lot of technical things of which they knew nothing.
While I usually worked 60 hours per week or more (one week I actually worked 104 hours and lived in the office alone) they would take time off, go golfing, and take leave. I would schedule my leave times four months in advance with their approval but they cancelled every single leave about one week prior using the excuse that they could not live without me.
I was so tired and jaded that when I received my line number for Major I instead put in my retirement paperwork and left at the 20 year point. I never looked back and made them mail my Defense Meritorious Service Medal to my home because I did not want a bunch of two-faced liars to attend my award ceremony.
For that much I’d have taken him to court...likely gotten at least a portion of it.
Nothing. The program was targeted towards employees who had bank owned and bank funded Blackberry devices.
The people who typically had/have blackberry devices in our bank are Senior Management, those who travel alot (and need both voice and email internationally) and critical operational support personnel. As silly as it seems, having a bank owned and funded Blackberry was considered a "privilege" and a "sign" that one was "invaluable" to the bank. That was then.
Gimme my $5k you rat bastard or I'm headed down to Georgia!
... you was lookin' for a soul to steal.
You was in a bind 'cause you were way behind.
You was willing to make a deal....
When you came across this Laz man typin' on a forum and hittin' it hot.
And then you jumped upon a hickory stump and said "Boy, let me tell you what!"
"I guess you didn't know it, but I sometimes hit it, too.
And if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you.
Now you hit it pretty good there, boy, but give the USC his due.
I'll bet a diddle of gold against your soul 'cause I think I'm better than you."
The boy said, "My name's Laz A Mataz, and it might cause a fit,
But I'll take your bet; and you're gonna regret
'cause I'm the best that's ever hit."
When my employer “suggested” the integration of a similar program I replied, “Do what you want. But remember that just because the phone rings doesn’t mean that I have to answer it”.
;’)
Charlie Daniels is either going to die laughing, or kick your ass.
You flatter yourself .... ;-)
My money’s on kick his ass!!
Just dang, I wish I'd have posted that. Well played!
what years where you at the Pentagon?
1992 to 1996 in the military and then until 2006 as a Beltway bandit.
That’s too bad! I just missed you... Left the Five Sided Monkey House in May of 1991.
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