Laboratory Policies

[Thraxas]

You mean horrific atmosphere, right?

[flew-da-coup]

What, you don't like?

[Thraxas]

No. Keep your clothes on. 

[flew-da-coup]

Why?

[Thraxas]

My eyesight is bad as is. I don't want to lose it. You prancing around naked at work would make me go blind four hundred miles away.

[flew-da-coup]

You are 400 miles away.

[Thraxas]

I know. My vision's already getting blurry. Put your clothes on.

[Thraxas]

NRA--hows the policy changes effecting the work load down there? 

That's right. This thread was about something else.

That's a good question from Flynn. Any news? 

[flew-da-coup]

It's not the policy changes, it's the FIRES that are changing his work load.

[NRA4Life]

Flynn-
Workload is UP, morale is in the $hitter, MLC is currently auditing the lab, the lab manager (issuer of the original email) is monitoring breakroom conversations, timing breaks, etc...things couldn't be better.

[flew-da-coup]

What the crap? Do you work or go to school? Your boss is a fool. They did stuff like that at Happy Valley last year and they lost 12-14 techs in 2 months. You need to let him know that you can get a job anywhere and if he runs everyone off where is he going to get a job. I wouldn't put up with that crap and I didn't. I was one that left Happy Valley because I am a man and I refuse to be treated like a child. Monitoring breakroom conversations, you ought to just kick his @$$. Well, it's obvious you have a sorry manager that does not know what he is doing. How come PMEL attracts so many of those kinds of managers? Tell him that he is your boss, not your daddy.

[cs137]

Sounds like anouther middle manager suck up idea to take a well oiled calibration lab and turn it into a calibration factory. I think that management model is for sale just like buying into the 17025 or ISO ideas. Most techs already know this stuff but the managerial staff has to pay for it. Sounds like you'll be passing out red tags and nrts'n stuff rather than approach the all mighty for more time to troubleshoot. It will be like, please, please, please sir, please let me have more time.... yea right! where's that 350 and glorious red tag..

[docbyers]

There is a small contingent that cannot / will not be happy no matter what you do.  They installed heat sensors in the ceiling and the paranoid techs think they are cameras.  I did just hear that they easily passed the audit.

[Thraxas]

They installed heat sensors in the ceiling and the paranoid techs think they are cameras.

That sort of thing seems to happen at every PMEL I work.

NRA- sounds like your boss is a tool.  What the hey, monitoring conversations, timing breaks?  Thats some weird shizzle....................

Sounds like Happy Valley...

[deerhunter]

Probably a stupid question...but Happy Valley is an acronym for where?