Blog 9 Sweating Bullets

Story starts out by talking about how companies love employees that close and then open the next day but it effects the employee in a negative way. How they only get 1 or 2 days in advanced that they will have to be doing this, this can lead to sleep deprivation, affected child care plans, etc. Talks about how clopening is the result of the “efficient” WMDs. That since these workers are just data to the WMD, they load up the schedule with whatever “efficient” WMD’s have decided. These loops are created because the software is able to create patterns to schedule workers based on “high end” parameters such as weather conditions, foot traffic patterns, what time during the day attracts more people etc. Then the WMD’s schedule workers and the workers are screwed over. Tim Clifford saw how much of a joke these evaluation scores were from the value added model. He did absolutely nothing the following year after receiving a bad score and went from a 6 to a 96 the following year. He was not happy that the scoring system was messed up that it could give him a 6 and raise him to a 96 without any change in his style. He had tenure secure and it would have put his tenure at risk if the “precise” system’s scoring of Tim was taken seriously. The model should be taken down. Companies can optimize profit and use of personnel by making their worker’s lives more stable because in the long run, these companies wouldn’t have to keep retraining new hire ons. It takes a lot of money to train people. Making scores optional can lead to more student’s enrolling in classes. If more students enroll, the more the school’s profit goes up based on tuition payments. This will help more students get into the classroom and start their path into the life of education.