Posts by Great Southern Land 78 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Feb 2011
(blatant quote of an old post of mine)
The problem with these monitoring (bullying) systems is that they never give the full story.
Sure, you can measure how often a worker's computer is idle, how often the screen is locked, how many phone calls they made or answered today, how many forms they processed, how many keystrokes, etc.....
The problem occurs in the interpretation of that data. It can never tell the whole story. Low keystrokes? Could be a slack worker, or a worker who spent the day waiting to give evidence in court, or spent the day in training (giving or receiving).... The software can't explain any of that.
From the stories I've heard over the years, management don't seem to bother checking first before using the resulting reports to justify disciplinary action against the worker. The worker usually has no access to the report data, won't necessarily remember a day's work 1-2 weeks ago, and if he/she is called in to the manager's office, the onus is usually on the worker to explain the discrepancies, not the manager/organisation. It cannot be assumed that poor results on their own mean a poor worker, but all too often that's what management assumes.
>>Some firms still don't accept service by email though..... If the email service takes place on the first day that person is on holiday and the date for responding is before he returns, tough; the deadline has been missed.
And that's why the company letterhead should show an address along the lines of reception@abc.co.uk for service of documents, in the same way as a fax number.
Need I also add that if someone is on leave, their email should be forwarded to someone (eg reception, manager, colleague)?
Tasmanians would sympathize with the problems of late night fax calls
Prior to Australia's change to 8-digit phone numbers, Sydney Area Code was 02, Melbourne was 03, Tasmania was 002, 003 and 004, depending on which part of the state.
As a result, it was rather common for Tasmanian voice lines (especially 002 and 003 numbers) to go off in the middle of the night, thanks to incoming international faxes where the sender failed to drop the first 0 from the area code.
The problem was solved by the 8-digit changeover, where Tasmania became part of 03, and their existing 6 digit numbers were changed to 62xxxxxx, 63xxxxxx, 64xxxxxx
While I can't speak for UK law, the situation in Australia is...
In an Australian company wind-up, "preferential payments" are voidable payments made to a creditor in the six months before liquidation, giving them an unfair advantage over other unsecured creditors. A liquidator can demand the repayment of these "unfair preferences" to ensure a more equitable distribution of the company's assets among all creditors. The six-month period can extend to four years if the payment was made to a "related party"
In other words, even if you managed to get payment before the debtor went under, if the liquidators can show that you had a reasonable suspicion of the debtor's situation, expect a polite request to hand over the cash.
>>The OS displayed a warning along the lines of "this will take a lot of processor time, don't do it". Yet they think it's OK to take processor time to do frequent screen grabs and even more processor time to perform OCR on said screen grab.
And that of course is why they don't want you to show seconds. It takes up processor time that could be more profitably used running Recall.
>Lau earned the obstruction charge by allegedly deleting files related to her work with the San Francisco-based GameOn from her employer's records while a grand jury was investigating the matter.
Why weren't her files copied as part of the investigation, prior to referral to a Grand Jury? The article implies that the files were deleted AFTER the Grand Jury commenced.
While I'm not promoting deliberate deletion of records, this smells of entrapment.
The Australian Taxation Office used to operate this way as well.
However, after a number of high-profile windups where the employees and small businesses got nothing, the law was changed.
Now, directors of a company can be held personally liable for PAYE, GST and employee Superannuation debts.
Gets the attention of "silent" directors real fast.
>Not even a full day passed between the call asking if I still had a copy and the lawyers sending me a nasty-gram via FedEx.
If that was me, that would be the end of my cooperation with them. Sending the lawyers in that quickly is bullying behaviour. From that point onwards, they can deal with my lawyers.
As shown by this Australian Information Commissioner Privacy Case in 2011....
https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/AICmrCN/2011/2.html?context=1;query=registered%20club;mask_path=au/cases/cth/AICmrCN
The complainant alleged that a registered club interfered with their privacy by scanning their driver licence and, in doing so, recording unnecessary information. The complainant conceded that the club was required to collect their name, address and signature. However, the complainant considered the collection of the other information on the licence, including their date of birth, driver’s licence number, driver’s licence type and photograph to be unnecessary.
The complainant also raised concerns that the registered club ’s notice and security procedures were insufficient.
>>> Ahhh Pagers
>>> Do you still get these in this day and age?
Yes, the NSW State Emergency Services and NSW Rural Fire Service (both volunteer organisations) use them for callouts. They use a separate network to the phones and SMS and hence are seen as being slightly more reliable. We also get the callout messages on SMS.
