Late Night Chapter 2 Summary Thinking

        In chapter 2, Job Analysis and Evaluation, the correct procedures are talked about for how to create a proper job analysis and evaluation. Also how to who should or is allowed to give an analysis or evaluation. Also how and who can perform a job analysis and evaluation. Only those who have been trained can give a proper job analysis, and only certain people, such as subject matter experts, should be the ones to be examined or evaluated. It would not be in the best interest of the company to base and analysis and/or evaluation off an employee with a poor work ethic. It also discusses other job analysis methods that are needed to supplement additional information that is needed for full and complete job analysis and evaluations; such as information about worker's activities and job equipment and ergonomics. Also, it discusses how to make sure that evaluations are done correctly so that pay rates and equality remain fair and intact.

        I actually found this chapter comical, not so much a funny haha kind of comical, as a, 'wow, yeah right' comical. I work for the United States postal service, a wonderful branch of the United States government and I assure you that they do not adhere to any format that would be considered employee beneficial. I think they actually get a kick out of making postal employees go off the deep end, i.e. 'postal'. While we have signs up all over about ergonomics and our bosses have said work safe. In no way shape or form does it come down to that. When there are thousands upon thousands of pieces of mail coming through our one building a night to process for early morning dispatch to the local area post offices to have in time for there carrier dispatches, there are no nice guys there is no protocol, there is no following a job analysis, and in my almost 8 yrs of being there, I've been given one performance evaluation that was marked all great because I was making sure the mail got into the box for dispatch that’s it. They do have job descriptions that are written for each job bid that each person has however they are one line, and the bulk of that one line says 'and other duties assigned by your supervisor', to cover their butts so they can send you where they need you to do whatever at anytime.

        Even if I think back to other jobs I've had before the post office, I can almost guarantee that most of blue-collar, fast food, clean up in aisle one, paper or plastic, that dress looks great on you, jobs don’t adhere to those guidelines because when your dealing with customer satisfaction and slapping happy faces on as many people as you can in short spans of time with high school graduates and low educated underachievers a job analysis and evaluation protocol go out the window. There is just no need to waste time and money having the stuff of that nature when your employee turn over rate is high. So to me reading this information was dry and unrealistic form the backbone of society’s jobs or government jobs. But that’s just my opinion from my experience.

        My own personal critical evaluation of the material is that it is too drawn out. Much like a lot of areas of employment in this world, this is another field that is drawn out to create jobs. There is what 8 billion people in this world who need to survive and make a living somehow doing something to kill their time before they die and so we have branched off every subject as much as we can and created as many subsets and fields as we can so that people can attain jobs. I think that this material stated in this chapter is much like that. A job analysis, while for legal aspects I know HAS to be as long and winding as the day is long so to avoid needless grievances and legal disputes, do not have to be so detailed. It just needs to hit the major points clearly. Again, I understand that due to an over suing happy nation of lazy get rich quick people, there is no way we can be simple clear cut and to the point anymore. We have to take between 2 and 5 pages in length to go over everything and every potential possibility because it’s those companies like the post office who have unions filing grievance upon grievance for job description violations round the clock.