RE: Pandering to the Mediocre?
DeGennaro, June (degennaro@quinnipiac.edu)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:11:14 -0400
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:11:14 -0400
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From: "DeGennaro, June" <degennaro@quinnipiac.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: RE: Pandering to the Mediocre?
While I agree in principle to merit bucks for 'star performers', what if
your Director (not in my case) or supervisor is a jerk. Maybe she/he
has taken a dislike to you, doesn't understand how difficult your job
is, blames you for mistakes due to a lack of training on the
supervisor's part, etc. And what if you don't suck up or brownnose like
others on the staff?
Can bonus bucks be given out fairly?
June DeGennaro
Quinnipiac College
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From: sufflib@tiac.net
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Pandering to the Mediocre?
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 1997 4:07PM
Hey, man, I'm talkin' cold hard cash. Bonus bucks! You exceed all
expectations and you get more that a pat on the back--you get 1,000 GWs
in
your pocket (for example).
Why, if you do exceptional job, and the guy beside you merely goes
through
the motions, are you BOTH going to get the same paycheck until bloody
retirement! [voice trilling] Our libraries should be more competitive,
more performance based, and offer greater financial rewards to the most
talented. (And you shouldn't HAVE to move up to managment just to make
a
decent wage.)
I'm concerned mostly with our star performers--the reference librarians,
the circulation assistants, the library pages--who do the work of two
people yet get the same pay increases as everyone else year after year.
It's not equity when you give everyone the same increase regardless of
their performance, that's inequity!
Joe Cadieux
At 08:12 AM 7/15/97 -0400, JMK wrote:
>Good question.
>
>Superior employees are rewarded with
>
> * Satisfaction at doing a good job [roll eyes]
>
> * More involvement in important decisions and policy making
>
> * Recognition and critical applause
>
> * Promotion, sometimes very quickly. Sometimes to libraries near an
>International Airport.
>
>Merit raises can happen and I think are not unheard of even in
Connecticut. If
>anyone has experience with so-called merit increases, I'd like to hear about
>them too.
>
>JMK
P.S.
And also, why do we cease to go library school after receiving our
library
degree? It's as though, once you are out of library school, there's
nothing more to learn. If that's true, if there is nothing more to
learn,
then get me out of this blasted profession now! Teachers are rewarded
with
hefty raises for keeping current and going back to school, and so should
we.
Joe Cadieux