Manacles? You didn't mention if they were manacled before being marched
out! And what about leg-irons? Oh, wait, it would interfere with the
ability to frog-march the perp, wouldn't it. Dang, ok.
> No excuses. No second chances. Gone.
This zero-tolerance (ie. intolerant) stuff might play ok on a 10-second TV
grab. In practice, using real people as opposed to robots, it's an
attitude that will bleed the organisation of important talent when,
occasionally, and for goodness knows what particular reason, some otherwise
very useful member of the staff is unable to comply with the edict.
What about if they had just been notified that their wife had just been
killed in a car wreck? Or their child diagnosed with a fatal
condition? I'm sure, most of you will agree that there ARE going to be
reasons, excuses, use what words you will, that even UN-reasonable
management will accept for a temporary loss of responsibility and
consequent inability to perform to their usual high standards.
Sure, a person who shows that they have little or no ability to perform
responsibly should not be given significant responsibility in the first
place. Someone who has carried it well for five or ten years and then has
a single lapse, that's totally different.
Furthermore, when other staff see what they may well judge to be an unfair
dismissal, even maltreatment, of respected and likeable fellow workers,
they become demoralised, they start to keep an eye open for an opportunity
to move out. Fear of leaving one's terminal unlocked may become their
overriding priority at work, rather than work itself. The smarter ones are
generally the ones that will go first. Guess what happens to those
organisations that persistently lose their smarter people.
Good management doesn't paint itself into such absolutist corners to start
with.
Hrrmpf.
And best wishes to all
Graeme.
At 09:22 AM 6/20/2005, you wrote:
I have been at installations which had a special policy in respect to
terminal security. If a terminal was found logged on (and not locked) and
the user was not present, management immediately had security locate the
user and escort them off the premises.
No excuses. No second chances. Gone.
It is a policy in which I believe strongly.
If you don't have enough common sense to secure your workspace, then you
don't deserve to have a workspace.
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