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How is this at all negligence on the company? How terrible would it be if company policy mandated 15 minute buddy check in system to prevent this? Are we just searching for someone to blame when there may be nobody to blame?
Security could check that the person still clocked in actually went home for the night?
As someone who made this post and cared to share about this, I feel there is some negligence on behalf of the company. A work system where an employee is in a building and no one has interaction with them at all, over a course of four days, is one that is not working for anyone - the company nor the employee. It is basically a failed system. Maybe it’s not negligence but maybe it is. If a dog is left four days somewhere and it dies, would there be accountability? If a human is left somewhere working for someone and they die, should there be accountability?
This. What kind of unbelievably shitty desk job do you have if you could be dead for 4 days and nobody would notice?
It is unbelievable.
Where'd you get 15 minutes? She was there an entire work day and her boss knew she never swiped into the building and instead of finding out why, just didn't do anything. If my employees are an hour late I'm calling until I find them or someone who can tell me what's going on. It's bad management to not have accountability for your employees. Maybe it's a little personal for me because I have had an employee not show up and it was because she was murdered by her husband but it didn't take us 4 days to realize. We're the ones who called the cops because when an employee doesn't show or call, you find out why.
15 minutes is just reactionary spitballing to exaggerate.
Most of my previous "office work" was primarily back end development, and the approach tended to be hands off from my supervisor. So long as work was getting done in a timely fashion, my hours and daily schedule was up to me. I much preferred that approach as opposed to rigid hours and direct management. I suppose different strokes here.
Dude, what? I might be misunderstanding but there's a huge difference between 15 minutes and four days? Or even between "hands off" supervision and no one looking to see why she hadn't clocked in or out for DAYS? Or even just looking in the cubical?
Like... The employer definitely bears responsibility for being this neglectful. It goes way beyond "hands off" lol
That's pretty fair. If she was an ofp employee I can see why her boss might not have tabs for 4 days but reading that she was a fairly new hire I assumed she'd be under closer supervision for awhile.