grazed
join:2006-10-15
Havertown, PA Reviews:
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Re: Nanny cam Wow, this happened in the town I live in. Didn't even know it happened until I looked at the story.
One thing to note is that these homes around here, especially that one, tend to hire poor people out of the city (Philadelphia) to cut on costs. I guess this is one side effect of hiring cheap labor. |
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| I don't know that you can attribute it to cheap labor. We had a similar case near here, and the two nurses who committed the offenses were stupid enough to record their deeds. They obviously had enough $$ for cameras/cell phones.
I'd love to believe it was a case of poor folks who don't know better, but it's more a comment on the values of society in general. |
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grazed
join:2006-10-15
Havertown, PA Reviews:
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| said by goalieskates:I'd love to believe it was a case of poor folks who don't know better, but it's more a comment on the values of society in general.
I don't mean they were ignorant of what they were doing, I mean that they hire dodgy employees for cheap instead of hiring more expensive employees with experience / education in the field. |
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 jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA | More likely, it's not so much that the employees are 'dodgy' as they find themselves overworked because management hasn't hired enough of them to deal with the workload.
It's a simple solution -- someone screws up to stay on schedule, you blame the employee and then moan "If only I had known!" 
It's a great way to maximize profits, especially if your employees actually do care about their patients and are therefore unlikely to complain (publicly) about being overworked. Once the employees find out how the system works, they become primarily interested in getting a job with a better firm -- and part of that is having no adverse comments on your references. So, they shut up, grin and bear it -- until the pressure becomes too much.
Yes, they should take it out on their managers, but ... which ones? Who makes the policy and who is simply trying to make it work as best as possible?
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said by grazed:said by goalieskates:I'd love to believe it was a case of poor folks who don't know better, but it's more a comment on the values of society in general.
I don't mean they were ignorant of what they were doing, I mean that they hire dodgy employees for cheap instead of hiring more expensive employees with experience / education in the field. Oh, I'm sure you're right about that as far as it goes. But I was commenting as much on the ethics of the people doing the hiring - they'll not only hire cheap, they don't supervise and they don't care what happens as long as they turn a profit. Then when something like this happens they'll feign innocence and blame it all on rogue employees, like they had no part in putting those people to work in the first place. |
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