Say goodbye to your long lunch.
Under the guise of improving security, Canadian firm McCague Borlack LLP is requiring employees, except for lawyers who spend most of their time out with clients, to swipe their finger every time they leave or enter the office, The Star reported Thursday.
But the real reason for the CIA-esque techniques is because firm hierarchy is trying to dissuade people from taking long lunches.
“Some people were abusing the system,” founding partner Howard Borlack told The Star. “We had people taking two to three hours for lunch and we had no way of knowing. . . . Some people were complaining."
But, Borlack added, the scanners, which are expected to hit around mid-November, will also improve firm security.
But support staff isn't happy and won't submit to the scan without a fight.
Secretarial and copyroom staff, who are mad the new policy exempts attorneys, have launched the Finger Campaign, claiming lawyers at the firm "deserve the finger," Above The Law reported Thursday.
One member of the campaign also compares the "tyranny" of the new measure to something Adolf Hitler would have done.
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