Re: Today's xkcd

In article <60todcF1rf6luU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Willy Eckerslyke <oss108no_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Sam Nelson wrote:

but if you're red circled, the
pay protection period will only start counting from the completion date.

Bzzt. I was red-circled in November 2007, and the pay-protection period
started in August 2006.

Jeez! That's the sort of crap they'd have introduced here had there been
no union people at all the meetings.

Or union people at them that aren't paying attention, perhaps.

The whole point of the pay protection period is to allow adequate time
to explore all the other possibilities, like increasing the level of
duties, training for a higher grade post, redeployment, etc.

But when all of that depends on the same people that under-assessed
you in the first place, what's the point?

If they start the clock ticking before they've even identified that the
job's overgraded, then it defeats the entire object.

Doesn't it just.

Even a fantastically-implemented HERA is a mind-blowing crock of shit. Have
you looked at the gory details of the scoring scheme?

Yes thanks. I came to this from the technical staff "Blue Book"
regrading scheme, which was also based on points being allocated for
different factors. Over the years, we'd figured out how to get the best
out of that scheme and it worked reasonably well for some jobs but was
rubbish on others (anything to do with computing for instance).

Oooh, what a coincidence.

I'm still reasonably sure that HERA, if done right, can be an improvement as
the extra factors will cover areas that weren't recognised in our old
scheme.

It depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to reduce staff costs, many
other things fly out of the window.

And if there's one thing I know for sure, the old Blue Book was a _much_
better regrading scheme than anything used for other staff groups, some
of which really were a crock of shit.

If this sort of thing is going to be used to decide pay packets, it needs
to be capable of being repeatedly applied to a given submission by _anyone_
suitably trained and hit the same score +/- a couple of percentage points
every time, and if it can't do that it isn't fit for purpose.
--
SAm.
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