RE: Pandering to the Mediocre?
Amy Terlaga (aterlaga@www.biblio.org)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:38:23 -0400
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:38:23 -0400
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970716173536.00927a08@www.biblio.org>
From: Amy Terlaga <aterlaga@www.biblio.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: RE: Pandering to the Mediocre?
Perhaps the person's director or supervisor (I know [wink, wink]; not in
your case) needs to be better educated. I've been very fortunate to have
never had a really unreasonable supervisor, so maybe I should just keep my
mouth shut. However, I have been in situations in which misunderstandings
were easily cleared up by either a private conference and/or a staff
meeting. Diplomacy is key here. The less accusing and defensive you appear
to be, the easier it is to defuse an ugly confrontation/situation. (I mean
'you' here in a general way. Don't mean to accuse you specifically of being
too accusing.)
My two cents.
Amy
At 09:09 AM 7/16/97 -0400, DeGennaro, June wrote:
>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
>
> ------
>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
>
>
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