Since we have been told to report to the office 3 days a week again this year, like last year until they stopped everything after admitting they could not collect badge in data, managers should now get reports.
The real question is it a lie or not. Is there a manager (FLM) here that cares to comment?
I think it is still all BS and no reports are being generated, and IBM is only operating on fear.
Like RT always said… comments welcome!
Only id--ts spend more time than they should in the office. Your office time each of the 3 days should be no more than a few seconds. Badge in and immediately leave.
When we badge in, it is time stamped. Suggest we all go for morning coffee and then leave
Yeah, I was thinking about starting a badge pooling service for the Atlanta office… anyone interested? We can put something together.
Not that hard to pass your badge to a friend and have them badge in for you…
Absolutely correct. Managers (I am one of them, FLM) don't give a fu--ing fly whether you stay in the office 8 hours, 8 minutes or 8 seconds. We just want to see the badge in information 3 times a week (unless you travel to some customer or are on vacation) so that we don't lose another performing consultant. I am in services, and we are already running with a skeleton crew. Can't afford to lose anyone else with the upper management cr-p of only cutting costs and not investing in the business to grow revenues.
Yes, I heard that the database is not even DB2… some other open source DB!
I guess IBM did not want to incur the DB2 licensing fee for that id--tic project.
Just go badge in and go home, there is not requirements to spend any amount of time on site. Just badge in and bye.
So, now it is an inconvenience to drive to the office, just pick a time where there is no traffic and go fill up their stupid database with your badge in information.
Though what happens to people that are traveling occasionally? How are they going to reconcile all that stuff?
After all it is not RTO but RTC, return to clients!
What a fu--ing joke this company has become.
I think they are waiting for when all departments rolling required from RTO mandates are in before enforcing anything to be honest. Nov 1 is the last groups mandated to start coming in. RTO from those who moved started July1 and the last is Nov 1. My guess is January, those badge reports with the red lines on names who haven't been coming in will be laid off for not coming in. Not sure how far back they will go though.
Next up after that round - requirements of 5 days a week RTO and more cr-ppy annual reviews with PIPs. This time next year, if you are left at IBM there won't be much left in the US.
As a former 3rd line manager, those edicts come down from on high. The only reason they push reports or RTO is to have documented cause for dismissal. We get numbers for people who have to be placed on pip’s. With conditions on who and where. Its the hardest part of the job.
They were getting reports last year about who was badging in. You could also be visiting customers or other locations where your data wouldn’t be included so there was a lot of work to reconcile the reports for each manager
Who gives a sh-t. If IBM has nothing better to do than check bade reader data then they should just flame out and go home.
I'm not a FLM, but I think it's a bluff ... again.