On 13 Jan 2005 03:50:34 -0800, K4YZ wrote:

Of course what's happening is that we have a cluster around the
clock. And people are in such a panic at the end of the shift that
stuff "get's done" just to get to the clock "on time".

When I worked for the now-departed-but-not-missed Douglas Aircraft
Company, the hourly employees lined up at the clock some 10 minutes
before the end of the shift (union-negotiated "wash-up time"), and
no one punched out before the shift-end time. We engineers did not
have to punch the clock, but we had to fill out a "daily time sheet"
which served the same function.

At other employers, the custom developed of filling out the sheets a
whole day (or for some of us, week) at a time because we knew what
"they" wanted our time to be charged to.....

America, America....

Technology doesn't always solve problems (ie: record keeping for
the FCC) It more often than not creates more than it solves.

Especially when the prigramming for the system which has to run it
is contracted out to the "private sector" rather than done in-house
by folks who know what the goal is and have to live with the results
themselves.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane