emcor employees

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employees under pressure

Photo of a certain group of employees than can still manage to smile under pressure.

Sleeping Employees...

Employees of the Month... caught sleeping...

money matters

Happiness and economic well-being joshua_w (100) 3 hours ago Hmm, been a long time so can't think of a good topic too start with. Well, the economy would be a good one perhaps since everyone is predicting a gloomy year ahead with talks of recession and all. Read Yes, the effects of the financial crisis could be felt as far away as here where i lived. Business where i worked had dropped sharply perhaps because of the uncertainty and lower demand expectation. Everyone is expecting a slower growth or even worse, no-growth or stagnation. Year-end bonus has been withdrawn and every employees are not too happy about it. Lay-offs are certain to happen for those working in large corporations and multinationals here. It's all looking very gloomy actually. A sign of failure of the western economic system or just a cyclical run of the economy as described by Keynesian economics? But is the gloom actually media generated or is it real? The important question-is everyone feeling unhappy because of the coming or 'already-here' recession? Some says the poor are happier if only because they don't have as many physical 'wants' as those who are rich. Physical and material wealth does make us hungry for more and this does not really makes one happy, they argued. Natives in most countries "measure wealth in terms of how many friends one has". As long as their basic needs are satisfied, they're quite happy living in their world. Of course no one would be happy if one were suffering in situations of extreme poverty. Then there is the point that humans measure happiness in relation to "social comparison or relative standing". It means that if everyone around us is in an equally 'unhappy' state, then we would still feel generally quite happy. So that even though the news around us are all bad, we're still happy in our daily lives; we still have our family, our wives still look pretty to us, our pets still look cute to us, and so on. Perhaps the media and governments are trying to make us feel unhappy just so we can spend/consume more to revive the economy, and if you proclaim yourself to be happy, then everyone would say you're being irrational or ridiculous in times like this. On another note, if the recession affects our abilities to pay our bills and mortgages then we will become very unhappy. For those who had lost a job or in need of medical attention, then it is an unfortunate situation. For those who have children, there's also their education to think about not to mention healthcare. There's a truth that in times of economic uncertainty, most of the time the government can't really help its citizens. So, the best action is to prepare yourself for any eventuality by saving for an emergency fund when times are good. Maybe the full impact of the recession has not hit us yet. Or maybe it won't be as bad as all the economists and bankers said it is. Or maybe we can use these time to get to know more people and become friends with them. That could only be a good thing right?

Seminar with Co-Employees

Picture taken during our Anti-Red Tape Act (ATRA) Seminar at Grand Hotel.

Indian Train

Indian Railways (Hindi: भारतीय रेल Bhāratīya Rail), abbreviated as IR (भारे), is a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Railways, and is tasked with operating the rail network in India. The Ministry is headed by a cabinet rank Railways Minister, while the Department is managed by the Railway Board. Indian Railways is not a private corporate body; however, as of recently, IR has adopted a corporate management style. Indian Railways has a total state monopoly on India's rail transport. It is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting eighteen million passengers daily[2] and more than two million tonnes of freight daily.[3] IR is the world's largest commercial or utility employer, with more than 1.6 million employees.[4]The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country; the routes cover a total length of more than 63,327 km (39,500 miles).[5] As of 2008, IR owned about 225,000 wagons, 45,000 coaches and 8300 locomotives and ran more than 18,000 trains daily, including about 8,984 passenger trains and 9,387 goods trains.[3]Railways were first introduced to India in 1853. By 1947, the year of India's independence, there were forty-two rail systems. In 1951 the systems were nationalized as one unit, becoming one of the largest networks in the world. Indian Railways operates both long distance and suburban rail systems.

Punctuality-key to sucessful career

Regardless of the nature of the industry or size of the organisation,some employee problems are universal.Tardiness or lack of punctuality is one such issue.People in management or supervisory positions,particularly first time mangers are often not sure how to confront chronic tardiness when it happens.Do they simply turn a blind eye when an oherwise dedicated and hard working employee chronically comes in late to office,do they let them off lightly,or should they take serious note of it as a deciplinary issue? Shocking as it sounds, an employee who comes in late 10 minutes each day has, by the end of the year,acumulated time off from the work to equivaalent of a weeks paid vacation!No surprise,habitual late comers give major headaches to managers at the start of the working day. As a manager it is ur responsibility to instill a sense of discipline in your people.Ifyour lax about taking up the issue,people will be templted to take advantage of the situation.Frequent tardiness in employees reflect a lack of respect for organisational timea and sets a bad precedent for others.And though flexible schedules are more common in the workplace these days,there are situations where a late employee could not only result in lost productivity for the organisation,but also give it a bad name,particularly where customers are concerned.It is there fore important to deal with these kinds of situations before they get out of hand.As exasperatring as chronic tardiness can be,disciplinary action ought not to be enforced with punitive intentions.In the end,as manager you need to be able to get your employees to cooperate without incurring recentments or damaging relationships.Here are some steps that you could take. Build a cooperate culture that encourages punctuality and inculcate in the employees,the need to be professional and mindful of their arrival times.Create a written punctality policy with clearly defined penalty policies.The ploicy must be made part of the employee hand book,clearly communicated to all new hires and consistently enforced. Use time manage ment softwares or devices or cards to record employee arrival and departure time and make it clear that employee man hours will be considered as a factor during perfomance appraisal.This in itself is a deterrent for employees who slip in a few minutes late and leave a few minutes early.Make meetings punctual.Send e mail reminders half an hour prior to every meeting asking participants to come on time.Start meetingd promptly,and tackle the most important items on the ajenda first.The rub is that the late comers receive no updates. Deal with issues of habitual lateness by a case by case basis.There may be a genuine reason for an employee's failure to turn up on work on time.Discuss the situations one on one and see if u can arrive at any solutions or alternative to remedy the situation. Flexible shedules are more commom in the work places these days, and if your organisation can offer flexibility as a option to employees, then by all means do so.In fact.many organisations are discovering that flexible work hours can be a boon for harried employes and stressed out managers alike,when it comes to combating tardiness. In most cases managers find it acceptable to allow temporary changes in an employee's work schedule to adjust for sporadic personal commitments or an unplanned event, so long as the employee makes up for it by working late.If tardiness is only an individual issue, and not an organisation wide epidemic,count yourself lucky.Act before the virus spreads . Candidly discuss the matter with the employee,explain organisational policies and find out if the employee needs any kind of assistance to cope up with it.By setting a positive precedent and clearly communicating your stand,you send across the message that your are serious about the issue.Although strong discilinary action and termination are always an option(particularly if the employee is a poor performer), a little understanding and leeway,consistent positive reinforcement, and a nudge in the right direction are all that are usually needed to get an otherwise conscientious employee on back on track.

Grand Piano P 284 MISTRAL

The Petrof piano company was founded in 1864 by Antonin Petrof, a Czech piano maker. The company still exists today and produces high-quality pianos used by professionals. The piano on this picture is the grand piano P 284 Mistral, which is part of the Petrof master grand piano series. This series features top instruments for concert halls which take roughly nine months each to produce by the company's most experienced employees. The P 284 Mistral concert grand piano is one of the best produced, which, thanks to the builders' expertise, is suitable for the hardest and most demanding pieces.