RE: [OT] Friday dilemma...

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

As i replied to Frank - its when after 15 years of it being no problem he
suddenly has an issue with it.

We're not a large company - 10 people in the office, 25 out on site.

I was going ask people what they thought about tracking vans to keep an eye
on people/movements, but i dont think that would be a good idea ;)




Dean.


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From: Stephen Jones [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 September 2004 02:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Friday dilemma...


Maybe it's just me but I don't see why this is such an issue. Surely if
your
employee is fulfilling his R&R's and you're are satisfied with his work
then
why do you feel you need to open his mail??

I'd compare someone opening the mail to having someone standing over your
shoulder watching what you're doing, i.e. it indicates that you don't trust
the employee.

I don't know what his actual job is but as he holds a directors position
and
as you say brings in a fair amount of work surely you should let him open
his own mail and leave it up to him to inform you of what you need to know,
rather than monitoring all mail going to him.

I've worked for large companies in the past that didn't open the snail mail
(regardless of what position you held) which is certainly the way I'd
prefer
it. The time I worked for a small company were the MD typically opened the
mail I didn't like it, although I never complained as really I communicated
a majority of the time via email. Although another director got really
pissed off that his mail was being opened.

SJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:timfletcher@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 September 2004 23:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Friday dilemma...

Hi Dean,

I know a professional HR consultant who is out of the top drawer - contact
me off-list for her details-  this sounds like a matter that might be
expensive if you get it wrong -  Good luck!!!

Tim