We read in the paper about the big bonuses and perks our CEO gets (with him reining in about $2,000,000 extra dollars a year). Then when the company makes U.S. World & News list of best hospitals, the employees get a thermal coffee cup. And it leaks.
To show employee appreciation, they have what I call "Happy Days". 2-3 free food parties during the day and employees get a free gift. A t-shirt, or sweatshirt - things of that order.
I guess they think that these things will make us forget raises and bonuses.
It's an insult to most employees.
“To show employee appreciation, they have what I call “Happy Days”. 2-3 free food parties during the day and employees get a free gift. A t-shirt, or sweatshirt - things of that order.
I guess they think that these things will make us forget raises and bonuses.
It’s an insult to most employees.”
Don’t forget the mandatory monthly birthday parties!
Prove your solidarity and eat cake or you will be shot!
I never pay attention to that Corporate CEO stuff. It’ll drive you to distraction. I did work for a hospital that reminded me so much of your comments related to yours.
Due to the pressures of having to give away services to illegal aliens, our hospital cut many corners. Employee wages were frozen for over seven years. Of course that was for the underlings. Nurses got raises every year. Nice ones too...
I finally got sick of it and took an offer I couldn’t refuse.
My wife was a person who would bust her arse to be a ‘great’ employee. She didn’t do it for the institution. She did it because she got self-fulfillment out of it.
She helped plan and conduct fundraisers. She sat on several employee committees to help with employee moral and policy review services. When employee recognition days came around, she and I were the ones who stayed around until 1:00 a.m. to hand out goodies.
Then a consulting firm came through and cleaned house. It was actually fairly clever how they worked it. They involved the employees and let them make recommendations. Yep you guessed it, my wife’s name came up.
We’re talking ten years ago, and my wife’s name still comes up constantly at this hospital in top level managerial meetings as a person ‘who used to do that’, when it’s asked why certain things don’t get done anymore.
She also happened to be a member of a service club in our town, and was known by just about everyone who is anyone, and those people have constantly reminded the hospital what fools they were to let her get away. She used to get these people to contribute to the hospital. When she left many of them were so angry they quit contributing.
The administrator of the hospital came and appologized to her months later. They realized they’d made a very foolish decision.
The surveyers who came into our hospital didn’t know my wife. They didn’t know all that she did. They didn’t try very hard to find out either. And so it made sense to them to eliminate her position. She directed a program that saw over 600 people come into the hospital for free, and donate their time.
Within two months, that programs was destroyed. All but about 100 quit. At seven years later, that program only had about 200 people in it.
All that free labor and all the plusses my wife meant to the organization, gained her no reverse loyalty whatsoever.
Within a year she was making 25% more. Today she makes almost double what she made there.
Corporate driven management can be a very self-defeatist thing. Those who think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread generally don’t know what they are talking about. Corporations are just too big to operate efficiently.
I do think corporations are necessary for certain large projects. Small businesses couldn’t raise the capital to get some massive things done. But I do think corporations have expanded to the point that it isn’t good for them or ultimately our nation.
If you’ve ever worked in retail or really anything ‘lower level’ that interacts closely with customers, you see how they push these kids to get people to sign up for the store credit card or some other nonsense and it’s the supervisors and the execs who get the bonuses for whipping the employees.
And what do the people (some who really do great jobs selling this garbage) who do the REAL work get (keep in mind they get in trouble and sometimes fired for having ‘low numbers’ for something that really was never part of the job when they were hired or mentioned to them?)
They get a raffle, a free CD or some such nonsense. meanwhile, the person who just told someone else to tell the cashiers or sales associates to get to work OR ELSE gets his next vacation paid for.
Absolutely ridiculous.