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Originally Posted by frosty
I work for a city that has been affected by the recession, as other CA cities have been. The city has had to layoff some people in the past year, and it looks like there may be another round of layoffs. It has recently contracted with a company to do a classification study of all city employees, but it's not for layoff purposes but more for auditing or seeing exactly what people are doing and making sure that people are doing what their position requires, or so that is the impression we get. Anyway, we have to answer a questionaire, which is really time-consuming. They want you to as detailed as possible. One can't help feeling a bit defensive in filling it out. It's demoralizing and a bit demeaning, in my opinion. You feel like you have to justify why you're needed. I can't help thinking of the movie Office Space. Has anyone gone through such a study? I wonder how much the city is spending on this.
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Many years ago, in a previous life, I was an accountant. I took all my accounts and digitized them. Everything I had when I started was paper, and after about half a year of running paper and computer, we decided to switch over to just computer based records. Freed up lots of time, which I used to get involved with different aspects of the business (I had grand notions of climbing straight to the top with my smarts and work ethic
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Point of the story, we had a new comptroller come in who wanted everyone to answer such a questionaire and type up a weekly schedule of what you did each day. After turning mine in, (and expecting an atta boy for being such a go-getter) I received a pink slip.
Comptroller had decided that my accounts, now that they were computer based, could easily be given to someone else, and the other functions I was performing were not part of my job description.
I guess my plan to help the company worked, as they were able to save the cost of my salary...