November 4, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Announcements
- Posted by Elizabeth |
Mr Loh Choke Nam, the new canteen operator, began operations at Menara Star on Nov 2.
He will serve food from 8am to 6pm. Mr Loh serves economy rice during lunch time, and a variety of kueh and snacks for breakfast and tea. You can also specially order noodles and more. Look out for the “specials” such as wan tan mee and Barley water.
There is also free Chinese tea.
Do give Mr Loh your support by patronising his stall during lunch time.
What do you think about the food in the canteen? Give us your feedback by dropping a comment below this post or e-mail nujstarmail@gmail.com.
November 3, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Activities
- Posted by Elizabeth |
The following is feedback from the KPI forum held on Oct 13. This feedback has been channeled to management.
Reporter #1, Menara Star
· The KPI form does not reflect the amount of work we’re doing. The KPI form is very basic and very business oriented and doesn’t take into account the day-to-day business that takes place in Editorial. The KPI form has obviously been done by a person who has a business background and no editorial background.
· Management should give us guidelines and not make us put down absolutely everything
we do. Right now, it’s just too difficult. Some things can’t even be substantiated – one can make it up things such as the start and end time.
· We don’t know how to fill the form. We even put in weekends, just in case. Should journalists be spending time logging work they’ve already done? We have enough work to do without having to record the details of the work we’ve done.
· If I have a 6pm assignment and I write it at home at 10pm, would they believe me when I record that on the form (since it’s not recorded in the system)? Will I be queried as to whether the information I’m inputting is genuine?
· Indicating number of words – is that before or after the copy is cleared? It would seem that the target is (to generate) the maximum number of words – it doesn’t matter if it’s of bad quality.
· Even ad space in a page could affect the length of our stories. Is that (if story is cut to fit) any reflection on the quality of my work?
· There’s a disconnect between top management and staff. There’s no direction in how the KPI is being implemented – it’s not a bad idea to find out how your employees are working but this is not the way to do it.
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