A few years ago my department was getting a fair bit of those even though everyone knew who was the problem (one of the managers kids on a different shift). They claimed they weren't sure who was responsible. I eventually convinced them to slightly alter their stamps to include the shift the product was made on. They still didn't do anything about him but at least the blanked reprimands stopped.
By the way, convincing management to do something generally involves mentioning something in a way that they think they thought of it themselves.
Mountain Mama wrote: I'm hoping someone can give me an answer to this? When bosses have a problem with one or a few employees, why do they give "blanket" reprimands rather than talking directly to the ones involved? I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Can someone explain???
Sure. HR has told the boss that a class action suit is less likely than an individual harrassment suit.
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The closed union shop excuse is a cop out. There usually are protocalls in place to deal with individual employees if management chooses. Most times they don't and choose the blanket approach and then whine about the union contract.
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Years ago, if someone has an idea that worked it was called individual achievement.
Now, if a team implements it was the team.
If it fails & crashes and burns it is the team that failed.
No one person is ever to blame. No one person is held accountable.
Reminds me of the banking industry, the team failed, nobody is responsible.
The team gets the lecture.
The executives get the bonus.
Management must do something, the committee decides that no one person can be blamed so a generic off the shelf text book lecture / letter will suffice.
It actually ends up targeting everyone, offending most people and the ones responsible truely believe that other team members made a mistake.
Resulting with a watered down version which has the affect of diluting the intent into a nothingness. Management by committee but remember some were / are still offended.
I was never able to buy into the off the shelf text book lectures.
Good thing I am retired and now just viewed as an old man in need of meds.
O.K., lets look at the "reason" the OP gave for the blanket reprimand. Coming in a few minutes late in the morning and leaving a few minutes early at the end of the day. This is not banks folding, or production lines turning out substandard parts, its grown people pushing the envelope to see where the line is drawn. When I worked for a living, we had a Employee Policy and Procedure Manual. Starting times, breaks, end of shifts and basic rules that covered EVERYONE was included. It was issued to each employee, you signed a form later that you read and understood all the rules. It also layed out punishment for failure to follow rules, plain and simple.
Seems like every 6 months or so, you get some slackers pushing the rules. reminders are sent out via e-mail or memo. Blanket "reminders" of what is expected. Lets look at it this way, if the Company was a day late with paychecks I bet everyone would raise holy heck, wouldn't they? You would hear "It's not fair!"
I bet they do talk the worst offenders, you just don't hear about it......
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Mountain Mama wrote: I'm hoping someone can give me an answer to this? When bosses have a problem with one or a few employees, why do they give "blanket" reprimands rather than talking directly to the ones involved? I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Can someone explain???
Those type boses that do this continually are simply totaly inept and have no business being a boss/super and having employees under them.
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JIMNLIN wrote: Those type boses that do this continually are simply totaly inept and have no business being a boss/super and having employees under them.
Agreed. There are many, many supervisors, very few leaders.
I worked doing grounds and facility work some years ago at a large 330 acre public facility. Everybody came back to the main shop building at the end of the day to put away vehicles and clean up.
Most everybody would line up at the time clock a minute or two before 4:30 and the line would start moving at exactly 4:30. At least once a month the boss would say something to everyone about people coming back from the field too early or lining up for the time clock too early. It didn't really bother me.
At my current job the boss sometimes emails everyone if certain things aren't getting done. Again, it doesn't bother me.
I was guilty of causing the shop to be given a blanket warning once. I stood up on the floor and told everyone about my infraction, I then told the boss that in the future if I screwed up to man up and come to me and speak to me face to face. The work place is no place for kindegarten behavior. Everyone is an adult and should be able to face their responsibilities like one.
Of course managment kind of treated me with kid gloves anyway. It sometimes helps if you are considered to be a bit unbalanced.
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