If you wanted paid, you needed to use the dispensary timekeeping software.
Before putting the dispensary timekeeping software on the computers, my business was losing money. People could write in their times and I was seeing there were fewer people on shifts than were penciled in for those times. This was happening in the morning and the afternoon. I couldn’t debate with the employees if they were truly working, because I wasn’t in the dispensary all the time. I had floor managers, but they were also working. I knew there had to be an easier way to track the employees’ time, other than trusting them to sign in and out on the sheet in the office. When I was introduced to dispensary timekeeping software, my job got easier. There were no sign-in sheets, and everyone was responsible for themselves. I called a meeting and told everyone about the dispensary timekeeping software and said this was no longer the honor system. I would go strictly by the hours that were in the dispensary timekeeping software, and nothing more. The managers weren’t privy to the password to that system, so they couldnn’t change the times for the employees. If you wanted paid, you needed to use the dispensary timekeeping software. If you didn’t want to use the dispensary timekeeping software, you didn’t want a job. I knew the employees didn’t like the new rules about timekeeping, but I had to do something. I was losing money, and would need to lay people off if they didn’t follow the program. When they learn to take responsibility, I will slack off a bit, but not until then.