Janissy wrote:
I am NT and would be bothered. In lieu of knowing the time I would be there for, I'd need to know the extent of the task so I could make my own estimates by seeing how long it took to complete 1/3 of the task, 1/2 and so on. If we were halfway done after 3 hours, i'd figure on being there roughly 6 hours.
I'd need to know before going in that the job was based on task completion rather than hourly so I could plan accordingly (or rather, not make any time-specific plans).
I have worked inventory before and the pay was hourly. I was not worried about how long it took because the longer it took, the more money I made and if it went past 8 hours, I would get overtime. That sort of thinking may have what kept others unworried. I also could make estimates of how long it would take by marking how long it took the team to proceed through the aisles. Also I hadn't made any time-specific plans because I knew it was a "long as it takes" job.
But if this open-endedness were a surprise, or I had no means of making my own estimates (couldn't see what then rest of the team had accomplished or how much was left) or if I was paid by the job not the hour, then I would be bothered indeed.
i get paid by the hour too, and i had no way of knowing how long it would take, because i dont know how many phone numbers there are. they show up on the computer screen individually. i just want to look at my watch and say, four more hours, three more hours to go...
Wow! That would drive me crazy too. Usually with "we're here until it's done" tasks you know the scope of the task so you can gauge how much is still left to do. Your supervisor could at least have told you how many phone numbers had to be processed. Then you could have at least a rough sense. It would definitely drive me crazy to not know if I was just about to finish or still had hundreds of numbers (or hundreds of minutes) to go. being fine with not knowing either how long I was going to work nor how much work I was expected to accomplish requires a kind of mellow fatalism I just don't have.
28 Dec 2013, 5:45 pm
