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I heard a really good piece on Odds Lots the other day about truck drivers, who are monitored in real time, to enforce their compliance with working hours and r

I heard a really good piece on Odds Lots the other day about truck drivers, who are monitored in real time, to enforce their compliance with working hours and road safety laws. The idea that was put across was that employers put drivers on the hook without modifying conditions of labour that would help them manage their compliance with regulations. This smacks of the same kind of thing to my mind. I can well imagine the situation that some engineers might find themselves in a pinch, that would pressurise them to contact someone on holiday. Fining, and on this scale is an inappropriate way to get people to respect vacation time.

saint_fiasco 4y ago
It's a classic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose tactic. You put a rule in place that overtly punishes people who do something unethical for the benefit of the company (in this case, pestering their colleagues while they are on vacation) while at the same time you put your employees in a situation where they must break the rule to keep their jobs. That way management gets the benefit of employees engaging in unethical behavior in secret, while on paper everything looks clean and management is not responsible.