Wisconsin agencies instructed to take attendance of state workers

[Joanne98]

Source: The Daily Page

This week, as thousands of state and local public employees converge on the Capitol to protest Gov. Scott Walker's proposed gutting of union rights, state agencies will be making special efforts to keep track of which workers are on and off the job.

Carrie Mickelson, the HR director for the Wisconsin DNR, sent an email last Friday to DNR supervisors, requiring them to track employee attendance this week, via a system named DNR Morning Report. It begins:


Effective immediately, all DNR will use the DNR Morning Report system to provide staffing and operational status each day. Each supervisor is expected to fill out the Morning Report – Staffing Data Entry Form for their program area each workday by 9:00 a.m. It is each supervisor's responsibility to fill out the Form or to coordinate with another non-represented supervisor to do the reporting for them. Your first reporting should be done for the morning of Monday, February 14.

"It's not so much taking attendance of employees, but rather dealing with an issue where some priority issues need to be involved," says Mickelson. "If somebody doesn't report to work, we need to make sure somebody else can handle those responsibilities. It's more about our redirecting our efforts."



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[Angry Dragon]

1. And now they look at these workers like children

[plumbob]

2. It's more about our redirecting our efforts."

I had no idea that a cheesehead could be such a glib liar. I'm used to listening to real pros here in Texas, so this simple statement is breathtaking in its concept.

Many years ago, when I worked for banks, one exec vp wanted me to document the coming and going of a particular employee. Now I figured that since he's such an important guy, he wouldn't want only little old me to work on this, so I shifted the entire workload of the bookkeeping department into watching this one employee, all day, every day.

On the second day of no filing, answering phones for balance requests or sending out insufficient check statements, the bank president stormed in and demanded to know why. I told him the exec vp wanted me to do that, and he left there. That vp was gone that same day. I think he landed as a purchasing agent somewhere in Artesia, New Mexico.

So my suggestion is that all employees exercise maximum effort in carrying out any orders they overhear....

[onethatcares]

3. looks like someone was in the military.

I wonder who's gonna read those reports? Will they have formation in the mornings prior to punching in, and will the time spent in formation be paid or unpaid?

what they're redirecting their efforts at is finding out who they can fire or blackball.

good luck to our friends in Wisconsin.

[xchrom]

4. What an evil tool for this fuck wad to use.

Hopefully people will ignore it in their own defense.

[Sabriel]

5. Ironically, I'm using a furlough day to go protest in Madison

If they're going to cut my pay, I might as well use the time to protest.

And if you're in a state other than Ohio, Florida, or Wisconsin, don't think this won't happen to you under a Republican gov. The precedent has been set.

Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota folks: feel free to drive to Madison to head off this travesty.

[TriplD]

6. Doesn't adding a layer of bureaucratic BS

..contradict their whole anti-bureaucratic rhetoric?

Now people have to take time out of their day to fill out Staffing Data Entry Forms. Will they hire someone to maintain and analyze the SDEF Reports? Or will they just shift people away from doing more productive stuff?

[Earth_First]

7. LMFAO! It just happens to go into effect the week of the biggest labor protests in decades. n/t

[midnight]

8. Sounds like personal days need to be requested....