Slap the timeclock, please.
What a surprise. We arrived at work with swipe cards (and a ton of other things) in hand, prepared to mindlessly swipe in on the red punch clocks we've been using for years. We were a bit surprised to see big grey monstrosities stuck in the wall. We swiped in, put our hands on the new timeclock that apparently requires a handprint for verification, and puzzledly proceeded on our way.
The city isn't proactive. It's REactive. Someone must have been rumored to be swiping out for other people, or vice versa. Funny thing is, noone knew it was coming until it was there. We guess the clocks are self-explanatory, but we also guess that some people wouldn't know what to do with the big palm print on, and the typed instructions above, the clock. Therefore, we are here to provide service with a sarcastic smile (or smirk). Simply swipe your city ID as always, and place your right hand within the hand outline, being sure that your fingerprints show prominently. That would be about it.
We scored a 98 when we swiped in. We're "A" students around here.
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posted by CPDDispatch @ 12:00 PM
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Guess you didn't read the instructions. Just like everything else at the OEMC, things are not what they seem. A 98 is BAD. The closer you get to 0 the better. Anyone else concerned about the sanitation issue? Will there be hand sanitizer available? SEVERAL of our co-workers have definte hygiene issues, and come to work sick. If someone sneezes into their hand and places it on the reader, I guess we all get what they got.
Some of the readers were working if you just hovered your hand over the outline of the hand. The green light went off anyway, and a score appeared. This would help somewhat with the sanitation issue. But what is this machine comparing our handprint to? From what I remember we only provided the OEMC with one finger print for the OEMC building swipe cards. Is it possible this machine on the wall is comparing our fingerprints that are on file since we are all city employees.???
HMMMMM
I'd be willing to bet CPDDispatch had no trouble at all reading and undertanding those printed instructions that are mounted over the swipe machine. I think maybe CPDDispatch was being SARCASTIC in the comment that scoring a 98 meant being an "A student". I think the comment was merely a testament to just how messed up those "whole hand readers" really are.
As for the appearance of the machines themselves, I personally like the idea of mounting a hand sanitizer dispenser next to the machines for use immediately before and after touching the unit. But come on, people, anyone seriously think that is actually going to happen? I think I will go to Walgreens and invest 99 cents on a pocket sized bottle of Purell.
Oh, yeah, and seriously...
Would it have KILLED someone to have given us employees a little advanced notice that these things were coming?
Just wondering.
The city that works......
We have only given 2 sets of finger prints and one extra index finger. Since our inception, there are no palm prints. Are we having this huge of a problem of ghost payrolling dispatchers and calltakers??? No. We have assigned numbered seating. I never see any one of the brass from the 4th flr swiping in or out. What's up with that?
By the way how much radio activity comes off these machines scanning our prints everyday? In 20 yrs are we all going to have same strange form of bone cancer that started off in our right hands?
Hi! I used to be one of you, and now I'm not. Now I work in the, cough cough, technology field out of state. One of the areas I work in is security sytems, including biometric authentication.
If they don't have a sample of your palm on file, verified as belonging to you, than there is no way those machines are capable of verifying your identity by palm print. Maybe by fingerprint. Maybe.
On the other hand, perhaps they are storing your palm print each time you put the palm to the machine. Than, if they suspect something is off, they can call you in and ask for your palm print and they can perform a match.
But that wouldn't make sense, because a.) its a lot of data to store, and b.) there is no guarantee whatsoever that the quality of the palm print will be good enough for later use.
Which makes me sorta wonder if they are just doing it to make you THINK that perhaps your palms are being printed and compared with a palm sample that they somehow obtained. Perhaps the green light will go on as long as something is being pressed.
Has anyone tried giving a print with a five fingered glove on? If it accepts it and gives ya a green light, than ya know yas are being scammed.
Either way, good luck. Its not like this is designed to hurt anyone sitting on 6 or 10. Its not like you can mysteriously disappear for 4 or 6 hours. Nope, this is designed for the non operations-floor people IMHO>
we got as much notice as the suits got. which is none. zilch. it came from the hall. the bosses were taken by surprise and huddled around the install tech's asking for an explanation. no advance notice at all. and it isn't our scandal. remember water? thank tham for these new r2d2 machines on the wall. and you musn't work 2nd or 3rd watch because some of the fourth floor suits have been seen swiping out too.
Tomorrow , I plan on trying this on the new bio tech scanner... I will use my card and then ask the person behind me to put their palm into the scanner. I will let you know if I get a green light & what the score is! Let's have fun with this!
I been trying for 2 days now to get a reading on my hand I keep getting a TRY AGAIN or nothing at all. I tried all 4 machines, including the one on the fire side, for several minutes each time to no avail. The installation techs told me i would likely have to get a new swipe card. Am I the only one?
You shouldn't have to get a new swipe card. Unless yours happens to be in ratty shape. Is it? If not, that's B.S. !! I have a new card (within the past year) and when I tried to swipe out, the machine didnt do anything,... no Green light, no Red light, nothing. Funny how the "directions" dont tell you what to do when this happens!! So, guess what ? I swiped again!! Does that mean I was swiping back in? Who knows ? But it worked and gave me the Green light to go home. Has anyone else swiped more than once??
i've noticed them at the fueling locations.... they have them for several months. will the whole city get them?
I'd like to slap something besides the timeclock. That's the poll we should start. Who or what should be slapped at OEMC!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
The dispatchers on Zone 4, 1st Watch are respected and appreciated by the NON-crybaby pretend poleece lazy dog-ass do nothings on the watch.
Just because we don't say it doesn't mean it's not in our hearts and minds.
Thanks for keeping it real and being the best.
Sincerely,
-1st Watch somebody on Zone 4.
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