The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
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Re: The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
#2Well at least they tried. I'm in a Fortune 500 with no IC/TC promotion path that spams the entire company with promotion announcements that land like insults every week.
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#3On a team with many colleagues from India, was repeatedly promised steak dinners if we were able to meet deadlines.
Re: The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
#4Well at least they tried. I'm in a Fortune 500 with no IC/TC promotion path that spams the entire company with promotion announcements that land like insults every week.
I see those all the time too well knowing that for me that for me any further promotion is close to impossible.
One thing that happened a few years ago was that I was on an improvement project that supposedly saved the company millions of dollars. At the end we won an award and i received an email talking about a big party at headquarters with great entertainment and good food where people could mingle with top management and the board of directors. It described what fantastic opportunity this would be. This went on for paragraphs.
Then the last paragraph said something like “by the way to save money we will send only the project lead and your management (who had nothing to do with the project) to the event but you will also get a nice plaque instead of the $500 or so gift card that used to be normal for this type of award. “. I still don’t know how anyone could write this and not see how crazy it was.
Anyways this was a good reminder to look after myself and not be a “team player”.
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#5At a company I worked at it was bonus time. Bonuses had been a point of contention forever as the company always bugled the metrics and despite a lot of talk bonuses were hard to account for.
So anyway they announce a "Christmas Bonus":
$50....
I mean I'll take $50 but it felt like such an empty gesture. Just a few years earlier I had gotten $150 bonus while working at a pizza joint. The HR person who sent out the survey that year did not like that factoid about the pizza joint that I provided on their benefits feedback survey.
Re: The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
#6On a team with many colleagues from India, was repeatedly promised steak dinners if we were able to meet deadlines.
I once traveled with a college who was socially a bit hard to handle. So we go out to the valley from the Midwest and he keeps suggesting we go to burger joints with the local team that is about %70 Indian.
Everyone kept looking at me like "What the hell?".
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#7This is almost as bad as the US government using taxpayer dollars to run covert social media campaigns to make everyone feel better about the government.
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#8Could have been worse. There was a time when corporations would literally pay to produce entire broadway productions about their companies.
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#9These are times when I remember that in a hierarchy people at the top are so removed and deluded that they think their employees aren’t full grown adults that see this bullshit for what it is. It is insulting actually.
Re: The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
#10Well at least they tried. I'm in a Fortune 500 with no IC/TC promotion path that spams the entire company with promotion announcements that land like insults every week.
I see those all the time too well knowing that for me that for me any further promotion is close to impossible. One thing that happened a few years ago was that I was on an improvement project that supposedly saved the company millions of dollars. At the end we won an award and i received an email talking about a big party at headquarters with great entertainment and good food where people could mingle with top manag…
Radicalize, just do it.