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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
My argument is that a flippant 'don't know don't care but it'll make me more efficient if i get a cheque for not screwing my employer' is as ######ed as suggesting if employers treat their staff like cattle they'll do better as well.
Lazy people with no pride screw the pooch regardless. No entitlement will change that. For hard working people, showing up shouldn't be a proxy for performance.
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Well my friend, the comment I made was anything but flippant. Why does it matter one way or another in this case what is done in the public sector? They are different entities. What works in the public sector might not work in the private sector. Unlike the private sector where employees can be rewarded for hard work and dedication, it isn't that easy in the public sector. By paying an employee half of their sick leave on retirement, it rewards them for actually being a worker that shows up for work. I would guarntee you that if they did this, there would be much less sick leave taken and more productivity.
Your right that some lazy people will screw the system no matter what benifit is in place. But why should the hard working people be penalized by the lazy? They shouldn't. Let me tell you something, people feel a little resentment when they work for 30 years and take very little sick leave, ony when they need to but do not get anything back for this other than a pin when they retire. Mean while coworker buddy has cashed in on thousands of dollars worth of sick leave over the last 30 years and gets the same pin when he retires. Do you think that maybe the guy who didn't use the sick leave felt a bit of resentment for having to pick up the slack of the other worker while he was at home using sick leave? Do you think that maybe the guy who never used sick leave, maybe his productivity was reduced the more and more he worked seeing what was happening? I would suggest yes.