Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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 Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
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A few people quit on the spot, but the veterans and some others had a plan to not sign the contracts in the hope that the policy could be changed.
Just look at the comments on this thread that basically say obey or leave.
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I'd add a third option, dis-obey and dare them to fire you. That's what I've done before, just refused to do something. If confronted on it, I'd say, if you feel strongly about it, you can fire me. They never did (both a hogwon and a public school). These aren't dream jobs!
The public school said they wouldn't renew my contract, but I replied, I wouldn't want the job under your new rules anyway. It was no matter anyhow, because another PS hired me across town.
Don't just quit, call their bluff. |
Nice. Also, your method need not always be direct. Often, a dumb policy can simply be ignored, and if enough people do it, management may just give up on trying to enforce it. If called on it, you can try to explain how the policy is dysfunctional and harmful and should be shelved for other alternatives. If the manager is very stubborn or vindictive, this could of course backfire.
Granted, this style is only for people who don't mind moving on if it does backfire. As you say, these are not dream jobs!
But I think some people are just naturally more rebellious than others and don't bend over so easily.
At one job they decided to try to stop paying us for lunchtime classes, but expected us to keep doing them. They said there was no budget for it, which was BS of course. The head teacher politely said that wouldn't work and if they didn't pay, we wouldn't do the classes. This guy was really good at making everything a DISCUSSION even if it was really an ORDER.
What happened? They hummed and hawed a bit, and the next day, the budget magically re-appeared and they said they could pay us.
The next year, they tried the same thing, only this time we had a sheep for a head teacher, who, without telling us beforehand, immediately accepted the terms to not pay us for the classes. As you can imagine, the quality of the classes declined significantly, as did morale.
And... this was the beginning of a process of taking away various other benefits. It began to be a game of how much they could take away.
What some managers don't understand is that this leads to bad morale and worse performance, and the good people tend to just leave. So even though management thinks they are getting away with it, they screw themselves in a way when they go too far.
Even sheep have a line and will move to greener pastures eventually, and then management is left scraping the bottom of the barrel. |
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