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anonymous said:
Look up the U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2012, Christopher v SmithKline Beecham. Allow me to give you the abstract. GSK sales reps are "exempt" employees. They have home offices. They do not have defined work hours. They work through lunch providing inservice education to customers. They work evenings at educational speaker programs. They work weekend conventions. They read and send emails. They compete expense reports. The run business analytics. They do not have defined work hours. GSK can have guidelines but not forced when to make sales calls. If GSK violates this ruling they will essentially go bankrupt due to massive penalties levied by the U.S. Government as well as overtime pay to all GSK employees. GSK fought this in the highest court in the land. If you are "tracked" be sure to get an employment attorney and file a claim with the DOJ. Point is, you do your job as you see fit. GSK cannot call you a sales rep then treat you as on office employee. Again, they took this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. It's what they asked for. So track away! I could care less. Just do your job and you will be fine.
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Agreed. But it’s just another example of losing another one of our freedoms in this business. It’s been trending this way for a number of years now unfortunately. Big brother is watching whether they do something with the information or not. And yes if you’re doing your job, you have nothing to be worried about. But the simple fact of this hovering over your head does not sit well with a lot of people. Again, another freedom being taken away away from this job.
 






My suggestion is to be completely upfront about how you / we feel. Say it directly to your manager. Bring it up directly to your SVP. Share your thoughts on the annual survey. You don't have to be defensives or disrespectful. Just tell them how this makes you feel. Nothing will happen to you. What will happen is it takes away the bully's power. GSK will be forced to say that they are not tracking your whereabouts. The fact remains, they can track all they want and most likely are. U.S federal law clearly states that exempt employees who work from home do not have defined work hours. Had a conference call today at 8AM. Was I supposed to take that call from the parking lot of my first call of the day? Of course not. I would love to be the first person they "track" and try to enforce "non-exempt" rules. My first call would be to a labor attorney and my next call would be to the U.S. DOJ. I don't know much but I know this, GSK would be in a world of hurt if they tried to change the rules after taking this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. So get over it. Do your job to the best of your ability and everything will be just fine.
 






Just quit this company.

You will add about 20 years to your life by doing this.

My suggestion is to get a job in the insurance industry. You will make more long-term, have more job stability, and will be selling better products.
 


















Our FLL stated that the trackers themselves, in monitoring reps' whereabouts, can't be used in reprimanding us. However, she did mention that if during random monitoring of activities, the GPS revealed cheating, someone could possibly be caught doing something else that would warrant termination. She's such a gem.
 






So does that mean that all those "working moms" who pick their kids up at 2:30 pm every day are "cheating". What about the little league dad who coaches his sons team? Cheating? How about the diligent employee who after an 8AM mandatory conference call decides to stay home and spend two hours reading emails, pre-call planning, take required eLearning, expense reports or conduct business analysis? Is that cheating?
 






What about my 9AM Pilates class? Is that cheating? I know of two FLL's who "cheat". One has Pilates class every Monday and Friday from 11 to noon and the other is a gym rat who would rather workout between 8 - 5 because his wife needs him to help with the kids at night. Is that "cheating"? I think if the company digs just a little they would uncover a massive can of worms. As one of the posts above mentions, we are exempt employees and have flexibility in how we go about getting our jobs done. Otherwise I'll take overtime pay for working through my lunches, dinner programs and conventions. I think your gem of a manager is FOS. But then again I'm no lawyer.
 






anonymous said:
What about my 9AM Pilates class? Is that cheating? I know of two FLL's who "cheat". One has Pilates class every Monday and Friday from 11 to noon and the other is a gym rat who would rather workout between 8 - 5 because his wife needs him to help with the kids at night. Is that "cheating"? I think if the company digs just a little they would uncover a massive can of worms. As one of the posts above mentions, we are exempt employees and have flexibility in how we go about getting our jobs done. Otherwise I'll take overtime pay for working through my lunches, dinner programs and conventions. I think your gem of a manager is FOS. But then again I'm no lawyer.
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You sound like a terrible person who would be a nightmare to work with.
 
























Tracking employees in such a manner, regardless of insurance reasons, is simply another loss of freedom that this job used to have. Ridiculous to subject your people to such stupidity.
 






anonymous said:
Tracking employees in such a manner, regardless of insurance reasons, is simply another loss of freedom that this job used to have. Ridiculous to subject your people to such stupidity.
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Fat Radical Republicans who want limited government but when it comes to work, they love oversight and getting in peoples business. This place is full of klansman.
 




































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