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I don't see anything wrong with working through lunch. If the project needed to be done ASAP, wouldn't working through lunch be a good thing? Showing initiative etc?
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One would think so, but here in the U.S. workplaces, sometimes the obvious is the most overlooked...
When I posted this topic originally, I was curious as to how the response would be given the international demographic of these forums. In the U.S., much stock is put in following orders and policies and the maintaining of corporate structure (I recall a magazine article in the 1980s describing how moving up the corporate ladder involved keeping one's nose firmly in the posterior 'cheeks' of the person on the ladder rung above you). There are places where infractions are taken as virtually personal affronts, regardless of well-intentioned motives. I, personally, have had situations over the last 40+ years of employment where I have had to deal with 'superiors' who cared more their orders were followed than any benefit gained by a bit of 'stretching' of the rules. Fortunately, I have never really had a seriously adverse result from my 'waywardness" but, I have come close quite often...
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Accesing work computers when you have declared you are not at work?
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I've heard this one before (once or twice towards me) and I would agree if the access was for personal use, but she was doing company work on the company computer; it is not indicated in the article, but the question is begged: would she have been fired if she had't completed her project on time and was she actually afforded sufficient time to complete the projct in the first place?...
The article states at the time of her dismissal, she had marked her 10th anniversary at the company a month earlier. If there was no other reason to dismiss her, and the article does not cite one given by the employer in the court proceedings, it seems a frightful waste of a proven, apparently well-regarded employee merely to enforce a fairly arbitrary rule. The company might be better served to reconsider the tenure of the middle-manager who made the decision and cost the company so much time, money, and bad public realtions...