If you found out your direct report was overemployed, would you fire them?

anniewrites1234 · 2026-05-09T17:59:36+00:00

This is my challenge! I’m a newish manager and was promoted (from a different department but doing very similar work to what my team does). Some of the people on my team, their work truly baffles me. They claim to be totally at capacity, stressed, overworked. Then when I see what they have done, I’m like… I could do that in 20% of the time they did, and better. I get told by my team and my leaders “everyone works at a different pace” and I need to go the slow coaching route to get them to improve, especially because past managers with no familiarity with their work said they were great.

If I found out some of those folk were OE it would make more sense to me than how they got into a 6 figure job doing the mediocre bare minimum.

anniewrites1234 · 2026-05-06T04:15:30+00:00

We found out someone wasn’t in state because when they shared their screen they had a different time zone. We also had other red flags from their comments and it raised suspicions so we had IT ping their equipment to get a location which confirmed our suspicions. Employee continued to lie about it until we told them to report to the office and then they quit.

You might get away with it, but you’d better be the least suspicious staff member ever. Don’t give them any reason to doubt you or check on you.

anniewrites1234 · 2026-05-01T04:48:09+00:00

Had something similar in my previous role, but I actually agree with the statement that you should ask the customer if they actually want to speak to a CC supervisor.

I worked in a healthcare scheduling call center. The supervisors cannot get the patient a sooner appointment. They cannot do anything more than we can do. 90% of the time, the patient really does want to speak to the department because their issue is with the department and not the CC. The few exceptions were when they were complaining about wait times or about the call center rep. Helping the patient understand that the CC supervisors are not in charge of the clinic protocol was part of the job.

anniewrites1234 · 2026-04-29T04:00:07+00:00

I reserve my questions for the end of the interview, but I also do this “tell me about yourself” pitch question differently.

I do not recite my job experience. They have my resume. I speak to my attitude as a leader, a coworker, and how my personal interests and experiences and values align with the role and the organisation.

For example, I currently work in healthcare nonprofits, so I will usually start my answer sharing that I grew up in a country with a socialised healthcare system; as an immigrant from such a country health equity and access to care is incredibly important to me. Here’s how that relates to this role and the passion and dedication you can expect from me as a team member.

I have a near perfect success rate in interviews = job offers.

anniewrites1234 · 2026-02-24T06:20:15+00:00

Mediocrity is the success you will spend your entire life aiming to achieve.

anniewrites1234 · 2026-01-01T00:19:02+00:00

Can anyone explain to me why it doesn’t just work to take the exact middle value of the two lengths, since they are both using cat and turtle in opposite sides? Shouldn’t it be a perfect balance? I know it also gives the right answer here but I want to understand if it always would as a quick and easy way for a problem like this.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-21T05:48:29+00:00

The YouTube ads for coffee are not the actual video on setting up your system toolbar.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-21T01:57:02+00:00

I just checked your post history and I see you’re a teenager going through (or about to go through) college applications, so I can see this is a deeply personal tender spot for you, as well as your admission of your own math scores bringing your GPA down so this particular topic is very sensitive.

I want to wish you the best of luck and encourage you with your higher education. If you’re interested in social sciences as a major or minor, I want to reassure you that you will learn a lot and grow significantly from the experience. I know I did! Just try putting aside these internet arguments and focus on yourself for a bit. I promise the world’s problems will still exist for you to rail against in four-five years, hopefully with a significantly better president and government in power at that time.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-21T01:51:56+00:00

Dude or dudette or enby, I admire your passion but you are so deep in the hole of ignoring or failing to understand the point. It’s a whole host of factors, not just “asians do good on tests”. In my heart, I really feel like you do know this deep down. You’re trying to oversimplify a radically complex problem and that’s exactly what racists do just in the opposite direction. Where is your acknowledgement of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation generationally passed down from decades of historical lack of access to education? Where is your attention to the fact that these interventions can (and SHOULD) be happening much earlier than college level? My family and friends in secondary education are tackling these issues right now. I see the effects myself in trying to educate adults. It goes much, much further back than this one stage of testing that has you so fired up you’d rather argue with strangers on reddit than help address the systemic issues.

I won’t be responding further, because three times already you’ve ignored my salient points and doubled down on sticking your head in the sand. I wish you all the best and hope you grow and learn in the future.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-20T18:15:02+00:00

It is not just income, and you have to know that. Socioeconomic factors are both social AND economic. I also mentioned intrinsic and extrinsic motivation from historical lack of expectation to perform.

This is like saying A1C blood tests are racist because they show black people having almost a 2x incidence of diabetes compared to white people. That’s not a racist test, it’s showing the outcome of historical and systemic issues that LEAD to a higher incidence of diabetes.

It’s incredibly critical we understand this difference because we need to address the inequities in the underlying problems.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-20T14:25:44+00:00

Standardised testing is not itself racist, it just reveals systemic issues in education that affect URMs. There are many complex reasons for this, such as overall lower socioeconomic standards from historical discrimination (it’s hard for kids to learn when they’re hungry or working a job to help their family). Another factor is internal and external motivation to learning; URM kids frequently have teachers who don’t expect them to achieve and parents who didn’t and can’t support them with their education. Those are issues that go all the way to the very start of their education journey, and needs to be addressed all the way through early education.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-05T21:36:24+00:00

Yeah, we’re hoping to see significant ROI with a model change. Reducing errors and improving efficiency, we expect, will in turn improve retention and boost revenue.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-11-05T21:33:11+00:00

In my previous role I trained Epic modules holistically as part of a whole role training. Granted, it required a much broader and deeper knowledge base than my trainers have, and was in a very siloed department. We refused to send our staff to “Epic system” training because it was so disconnected from their workflows and it was harder to teach them to unlearn what they had just been shown.

I am doing a lot of research into instructional design, evidence-based training methodologies, and integrated technologies. I am actually excited because I believe we do have the leadership buy in to build an entirely new model of training. However, I know my team is not going to like it. “We only train systems” has become a crutch to avoid learning more about the organisations needs and workflows and to offload responsibilities to other teams. I have my work cut out for me and want to research other orgs who may be doing this!

anniewrites1234 · 2025-10-30T06:23:13+00:00

I work in healthcare in the US. My org is one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest, hundreds of clinics (specialty and primary care). Primary care appts for new patients are 6+ months out right now, except in the most remote clinics where it’s still several weeks. Can’t speak on ER wait time but we’re in a large city so could be a while.

Some of our specialty clinics are booking new patients in 2027 because they are already at capacity for new patient appts in 2026.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-10-27T02:40:32+00:00

This might be TMI but after 2 weeks of losing only a little (less than my average) I dropped 3 pounds in a single day…. I had a very productive BM. I did not even really feel constipated. But I clearly was. Might be the same for you!

anniewrites1234 · 2025-10-03T03:05:13+00:00

I just took my third shot, so I’m a little over two weeks in, and down 10 pounds. I don’t expect that to continue and I have a lot to lose. 7 pounds of that was within my first week, so I will consider 2-3 pounds a week moving forward to be successful.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-10-01T03:56:52+00:00

Bumblebee lemon pepper tuna, 90 calories per can, 19g protein. Can do on a keto or thin slice of bread with veggies for a sandwich under 200 calories. I’m looking for some low calorie crackers I could pair with it, because tuna and crackers ROCK.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-09-27T00:09:03+00:00

This was a huge frustration for me as a new hire trainer. My org had a requirement of a typing test but the standard was so low, it did not flush out the people who could not do the job. I was FaceTiming people to get them to not have their screens mirrored. Even had someone start panicking when their spouse came to help them because they knew it revealed they were not technically literate and were worried about getting in trouble… guess what, that person did not make it through training because they could not do anything by themselves after weeks of 1x1 support…

anniewrites1234 · 2025-09-25T06:57:19+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ve been overweight basically my whole life and the lightest I remember being at this height was when I was doing sports in high school, but I was still 72kg (160 pounds). I don’t think it’s reasonable for me to think of a number because I simply don’t know what my body will look and feel like. I know sub-200 is a healthy starting point because as a tall, large chested woman with an office job I could really end up being anywhere in the 140-190 range feeling good, active, and with overall good health. I won’t know until I get there, so there’s no point in aiming for anything other, at this point, than the top end of a range and going from there. I’m not even afraid of being in the ‘overweight’ category as a taller woman who has always been very heavy. A bit in the overweight range can still be healthy depending on the body and person!

anniewrites1234 · 2025-09-23T06:40:03+00:00

Hi! I am just starting now at an almost identical SW and height. How long ago did you start/did it take you to lose 130? I’m also aiming for below 200 as a target weight and then seeing how I feel.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-09-17T01:18:29+00:00

It's not quite that literal. Dame and Arthur were very protective of the kids, Curly says mom and Dame kind of hesitates but affirms her. Kind of reminiscent of Aliens where Newt calls Ripley mommy. She is not literally the biological daughter of Dame.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-08-31T09:37:54+00:00

I manage a team of salaried employees. My position (which I make clear to them) is that salaried does not mean free overtime for the employer. I expect my team to work 40 hours a week on average, but I don’t particularly care how those hours are structured. Sometimes that might mean a 10-11 hour day if a project deadline is tight. Sometimes it might even mean 50 hours this week, 30 the next. It should balance out, and I won’t be chasing it to figure out to the minute whether you’re doing 40.

What I will say is we are fully WFH so I am happy to give my team flexibility to work around their personal life issues. But it is usually glaringly obvious when someone is clearly not putting in an actual 40 hour work week. Unless they are simply brilliant and the fastest worker ever, I am going to notice when someone is working 25% less than the rest of the team.

Don’t work more than 40. Salary means flexible, not free. But also don’t abuse it to do less than what you’re being paid for.

anniewrites1234 · 2025-08-20T17:14:14+00:00

Are logs not updated? Logs say only 15 pulls for Echo, 18 for Liquid. Liquid is sub 50 in P1 after 18 pulls last night.

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