Re: Misadministrations -Reply

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Frank Gallagher's points:

Frank points out some reality issues. These are facts. These are 
issues affecting other industries as well. However, these facts must 
be mitigated when there are consequences. If management decides that 
permanent employees are out, and that temporary workers will be used,
that is their prerogative. Management must however be held 
accountability that whomever they decide to use to perform a "job", 
that the individual be deemed competent and trained, meeting all of 
the qualifications that had been required for all permanent staff. 
This is also true for moonlighting employees. Each position should 
have a job description, with the necessary job experience, training 
met and qualifications. In the end, it should not matter who the 
employee is that does the work. When management decides to downsize, 
or use different groups to perform a job, to save money, they should 
be required to increase the cost of training the replacement staff. 
Cost reductions should not be made when it comes to qualified workers 
who are not receiving adequate training. Appropriate procedures need 
to be in place as well, and nobody should be performing any job 
unless they have been deemed competent, by management, to perform 
their specific accountabilities.

The NRC finally started to look into the power reactor world when 
downsizing kicked in full force. Perhaps someone, including the 
hospital accreditation boards should be addressing this issue as 
well. Saving money is not a valid excuse to use less competent staff, 
when the public has the potential to be adversely affected.

Sandy Perle
E-Mail: sandyfl@earthlink.net 
Personal Website: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/1205

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the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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