Theft In The Workplace

Day 471, 16:11 • Published in USA Israel • by Moishe

How many of you company owners have experienced this: you put 4 jobs up to be filled. Let's say they are Skill Level 3 and you are offering 15 USD/day (it's a Q3 company.) Then you go to manage your company the next day and notice that all the jobs are filled - by people with wellness ranging between 12 and 40?

A Skill Level 3 employee (assuming they are at 3.50 just for argument) with a wellness of 12 working for a Q3 food company (I speak from experience since that is what I manage) earns about 9 USD/day for the company. Even if their wellness is 40 they only earn about 12.25 USD. Most of the time by the time you can get on-line and see what has transpired they have already worked and have lost for your company between 3 to 6 USD. Ok, maybe 6 USD is not that much. But if it happens several times a week, week after week, it adds it. Plus you now have to fire them (something I hate to do but which is a financial necessity) and then you have to repost the job offer.

After about a week of posting job offers, getting under-qualified people, firing them and reposting job offers you finally get someone worth keeping.

Now I am not calling these low-wellness people thieves. Please do not misunderstand me. But there is something wrong with this scenario. And the wrongness comes from admin who is either unable to add another qualifying aspect to job offers - a minimum wellness - or is simply unwilling to do so. Personally I think it is the "unwilling" part. Just as they (the eRep creators) are unwilling to add a display of employees' wellness on the Company Employee Screen.

Concerning the Employee Data Display

I've read a lot the past few weeks about how Admin (I use the term generically to include everyone involved in the coding of the eRepublik experience) is trying to speed up the site. And one way to speed up any site is to limit the number of times the script accesses the database.

Now pay attention, Admin. If I have to open a new tab (or window) for each employee just to check their wellness that means a series of new database queries. When you displayed the Employee page you already made one query which could have very easily read each employees' wellness into an array and displayed it. Instead you are forcing Company Managers to do a check on each employee which has to add at least another query, or two, or more.

The bottom line is that refusing to display the employees' wellness on the Company Employee Page is slowing down the web site!

Back to the "Theft" Issue

There definitely needs to be a parameter included in human resources that allows employers to limit application to persons above a certain wellness. It would also be nice if there was a place to comment on any benefits the company has to offer. And it would be really cool if the employee is not hired until the manager approves the application (similar to RL). Where in the world can an employee go to work someplace and earn a day's pay prior to the employer saying, "You're hired."

To All Potential Employees: If your wellness is below 40 do not apply to a Company with a Quality equal to your skill level. Just because your Skill is level 3 does not mean you should be working for a Q3 company. You need to go back to Q1 or Q2, get your wellness up using methods mentioned in earlier issues of the American Free Press and then apply to a Q3 company. Save your future employer some headaches and yourself the heartache of getting fired. Because I assure you - if your wellness is lower than 30 or 40 you are going to get fired.