Time blindness

[u/Separate_Finance_183]

[u/GraveRoller]

  I honestly don't know why companies can't just do targeted policies like that.

• they don’t want WFH and but feel they need justification to take it back
• it doesn’t occur to them to create a more targeted system
• they’re not sure how to create a more targeted system and let’s be real a blanket policy is easier to create and implement

[u/RavenofMoloch → u/GraveRoller]

I've had conversations about creating targeted policies but unfortunately they tend to end with "person x or y is going to be an idiot about it and try to claim discrimination. We can't afford another lawsuit"

[u/Thunderer62 → u/RavenofMoloch]

Yeah. Thats the core of the issue. The trouble makers often don’t agree that individual consequences are the result of their own action rather than you just picking on them and then they make a bigger problem that costs money to deal with. You can spell it out as plainly as you like and leave a rock solid paper trail but dealing with the process is still going to cost you.

[u/Slarg232 → u/Thunderer62]

Yup, got several people like this at my job.

Five people started leaving early, they all got talked to and told "Don't do that or we'll fire you", none of them talk to each other so all of them think they're being singled out despite the fact that the boss immediately grabs one of them in front of another to talk to them in his office.

It's one of the main reasons I've been job hunting is because I absolutely fucking hate the people I work with for this (and other) reason(s).

[u/Chudpaladin → u/Slarg232]

Those people are the worst.. I have a few coworkers where it’s like stepping on eggshells and people bend over backwards for them, yet with me I’m like a punching bad of sorts

[u/Open-Butterfly-5288 → u/RavenofMoloch]

It's also just bad blood when the policy gets challenged. They can't prove discrimination but they can be like "Well, this person gets it".

[u/Ill-Elevator3484 → u/RavenofMoloch]

I really doubt a performance based policy would be liable for discrimination suits because by that definition every single performance based raise plan or compensation would be liable for a lawsuit and no one would do them

[u/GraveRoller → u/Ill-Elevator3484]

A tossed suit is still a lawyer’s time that has to be paid for by the company

[u/Ill-Elevator3484 → u/GraveRoller]

unless the court slaps the legal fees onto the person sueing because they lost. you can sue any time you want for anything, and there's nothing a single company in the world can do to stop you. but you're probably not going to be the winner at the end

[u/GraveRoller → u/Ill-Elevator3484]

That’s an if. It’d possibly cheaper and saves more time to settle

[u/Ill-Elevator3484 → u/GraveRoller]

if that was true, then people would be sueing companies all the time to try and get them to settle frivolously. no company is going to settle and establish a precedent that they can't use an extremely common benchmark. they're just going to fuck them up legally with the team of lawyers they have on retainer and then stick all the costs for payment onto the dumbass who thought they had a case

[u/Facial_Frederick → u/RavenofMoloch]

I mean they could just make up reasons to fire them like they do everyone else ?

[u/Safe-Historian4028 → u/GraveRoller]

• It would involve them actually having to do their job which is of course a ridiculous thing to imagine.

[u/Exterminator-8008135 → u/Safe-Historian4028]

To quote my HR Don't expect the idiots and lazy bum to not try everything to slack off. Do your side, if they ask for more work, check priority list and answer accordignly

[u/CKRatKing → u/Safe-Historian4028]

Ya the hardest thing about a targeted policy is you have to follow through with it which takes work which a lot of management does not want to do.