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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to go back to old days. When I was a supervisor in the 1980s I had a bathroom break log for exceptions.

Employees were required to pee or poop on own time before shift, after shift or during break or lunch. If you had to go we could make a five minute exception men and women and a 15 minute exception of a women has her period. Yes we tracked periods.

We allowed zero personal items in desk. We had lockers to lock up pocketbooks, coats or briefcases out side work area.

Zero personal phone calls allowed. Late more than three times in a year greater than 7 minutes fired. Call in sick greater than 3 instances fired.

Desks had no drawers. We had all employees facing forward and no personal talking allowed. I sat in back with a key stroke monitor and I could access all the screens.

We also had strict productivity goals. Don’t meet them fired.

We also did bed checks. Call in sick and we randomly do bed checks. Not in bed or at doctor when sick fired.

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JInfinity that wasn’t the norm in the US in the 80s and your fantasy posts are getting old. [/quote]

We actually had that. We also had “feet mouses” we did not want people taking hand off key board and waste time using hand, we also took away computer screens as people wasted time looking at screen to check what they typed, we also removed letters on numbers on keyboards as folks need to memorize that as looking down slows productivity, we even removed all items and pictures on walls and had color paint in wall and certain room temp to promote efficiency. We even prohibited clocks as people would look at them.

The 1980s we are in to that. We had some folks typing 120 words a minute the whole day. The call center, collections dept, brokers cold calling, suspense accounts recon like a factory.

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