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On 6/14/2017 11:29 PM, wrote:

Your employess steal time from you. All of them do. Ever take an extra cigarette break? Ever make personal calls on company time? Ever take a sick day when you weren't? Ever sneak off early to see your kid play a soccer game, go to his band recital, a baseball game, or anything else? How many times did you take exactly one hour for lunch? How many days did you say, "well,we gave it our all tomorrow, but I'm beat, so let's go home and hit it hard tomorrow". Ever
take a pad, a pencil, a pen, or exaggerate your lunch/entertainment bill? Go home and take the rest of the day off when a conference was over early?

All? I disagree, though some do. Everyone works differently. An
example, some years go I was a supervisor and had a guy working for me
that ran a tubing bending machine. He often took a walk to the
storeroom, took the extra smoke break, etc. My boss thought he was a
screw off and confined him to his machine; no more trips to the
storeroom for supplies. Before that, he turned out 50% to 100% more at
the end of the day than anyone else. Tied to his machine, his output
dropped to the same as everyone else.

Revenge was his. A new tool came along and he asked for help to set it
up. The engineer that designed it could not make the part. He had the
toolmaker come and he could not get it to run either, then they went to
lunch after investing a day plus of their time. Ten minutes later,
Richard put a perfect part on my desk and said "can I go to the
storeroom for gloves?" Yes, you can, any time you want.

I have a half dozen stories of people that are perceived as a goof off
but vastly outproduce everyone else. Yes, some people do screw you on
time, but what counts is what is done at the end of the day.

As for myself, I never sneaked off early. I just said "I'm leaving
early". No reason to be sneaky about it.

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