Efficiency

Today at lunch a bunch of the associates were talking about raises and bonuses for this year end. They mentioned that a woman got a zero raise and bonus last year because she received a poor score on her review. One of the components of the raise that everyone recieves a poor score on is charge hour goals. Every year the employees are supposed to have a certain ratio of chargeable hours to employees compared to thier administrative hours. Even during good seasons people dont meet those goals because they are unrealistic. Well in the summer time after the individual deadline is met in April and all extensions are made, there is really no work to be done in the office. People come in at 9, take a 1.5 hour lunch, and are outta here by 5. During this time lots of people just sit around and gossip or talk on the phone. I totally understand that work must be done to complete a deadline and everything, but why the hell would you hire 2 interns for the summer to get "experience?". We are closing in on our third week today and have done no work outside of busy administrative type stuff. We were told that we would be getting great experience this summer doing compliance work. Its totally apparent that work will not be given to us when even the associates are struggling to stay busy.

Im thankful for this job as I get 18.50 an hour to sit and surf the web all day but come on..... I am wasting the company money, time, and space. What is the point of hiring the iterns. Why do they hire anyone for the summer if they cant even budget out the work or develop some sort of schedule ahead of time in the past years that can outline the work availible to interns in the summer. I have already interned before with a similar experience but at my last job I did get some worthwhile work after some begging.

I think its pretty shitty to grade employees on efficiency when the company as a whole is a fucking joke in that department anyways. Its not our fault we dont have time we can charge, its the partners fault. If we are short on work they should be out there searching for new clients to help the company grow. Im sure they get great huge bonuses every year on top of thier enormous salaries. Yeah, they know they are doing, yeah they are experienced, but I think that alot of the incentive is gone for them at this point because they are the ones running the show. They should take a look at what they are doing to increase revenue for the company instead of punishing the lesser employees. Heck, even partners are taking days off here for no reason or leaving early when they could be doing other stuff. Its just retarded.

Thanks for reading, this really vented some of my frustration. Stay tuned for some more thoughts.