• @[email protected]
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    Not union related but just an apropos … Our company had a whiteboard where people could write things to improve the workplace. Some people said more compliments! but eventually serious stuff like a decent health plan and pay raises got on there.

    Management saw this and held a meeting where they hired this guy that climbed Mount Everest to motivate us and eventually told us to look inward when there’s problems. I was like, wtf is this shit? But it did work on a few people. They were all, “yeah, I should think about what I could do …”

    Immediately started applying for jobs after that shit.

  • @TheCrawlingKingSnake
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    191 year ago

    This is fucking gold to me. The exact sentiment I feel about my workplace.

  • ihavenopeopleskills
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    91 year ago

    I’m officially neutral on the topic because there are too many factors involved in each respective workplace and CBO. That said, a leading union-busting firm, LRI, states the absolute worst enemy of a union organizer is a workforce of well-treated, happy employees. Unions can’t penetrate them. This is all too much to ask for many employers.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Like Louis Rossmann says, if you don’t want to deal with unions, don’t piss off your employees.

  • @haulyard
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    91 year ago

    I feel like I missed a post about some company having a pizza party and wondering why their employees are still unhappy. This must be the fifth pizza party post I’ve seen today. Can someone help me out?

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      91 year ago

      I don’t know whether there was one original pizza-party-incident, but the pizza party has become kind of a symbol for corporations doing very cheap symbolic shit instead of real solutions (that would of course cost a bit more in the short term) when it comes to employee satisfaction.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Exactly what the other guy said. Instead of changing the way things work, Pizza Parties are being held.

      Or similarly: what stops a burnt out doctor in an overrun hospital? Rehab? No! Its resilience Training. According to corporate.

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      Mine got our whole department of 9 people lunch once every 2 months from a local pizza place for maybe $100 each time. My bosses, bosses, boss apparently complained of how much was being spent on lunches.

      To put that to a scale, I ordered between $10k-$20k in supplies each week. I cleaned out my area one day and threw $20k of unboxed equipment in the trash without any need to check with anyone. Corporate netted $70M a year off our small operation. That profit was, to them, a drop in the bucket.

      Those lunches must have looked really bad on paper.

  • @Phegan
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    31 year ago

    But they didn’t have a melon party.