Sherri MacCheyne’s Time Keeping and Avon

As with any good critical thinker, I like to start off the day with some questions. Today, I am interested in the activities of Sherri MacCheyne, secretary in the University Relations department at UNCG – working directly under and at the order of Paul Mason. After all, she was the one who compiled the reports on the usage of time by the three employees who were fired for exactly that.

To begin, Sherri uses a time keeping system of her own invention. Why wouldn’t she use the one put in place by the university?

Employees notified her repeatedly that the system was incorrectly marking the time they input on their schedules. How long did she let that go on?

Aren’t any reports of time usage automatically suspect because of the home-made nature of her time-keeping system? Is there any chance that they would hold up in a court of law, rather than a kangaroo court at UNCG?

Sherri never seemed particularly happy with her fellow employees in UR. One area of her discontent was her perception that they were running a private business. Did she feel the same dissatisfaction with her own performance when she was selling Avon in the office?

Did she ever fill out the secondary employment form that has been the focus of so much attention for the three who were arrested and fired? Or was she guilty of the same type of 'egregious' failure to fill out paperwork?

She used university email, phones, and mail service to deliver catalogs in an effort to sell her wares. Has the time during her work day which she devoted to those activities ever come under any sort of scrutiny? Has she been asked to account for the hours engaged in sales for personal gain while on university property and during university hours?

I suppose the argument could be made that by selling beauty products to her co-workers, she was, in fact, beautifying UNCG and therefore was contributing to its advancement. I wonder if that argument seems more convincing than the idea that if David Wilson and Chris English continued to establish their reputation as world class photographers it would speak volumes as to the quality of photography they could produce on behalf of UNCG.

Are Sherri’s taxes going to be made public and trotted around for the entire world to see? Or maybe she didn’t even declare that income at all, in which case she might have a bigger problem.

What’s the old saying?

Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.