Whats up in the Work place???
Happy Employees Are Critical For An Organization's Success, Study Shows
Science Daily (Feb. 4, 2009) — "One's happiness might seem like a personal subject, but a Kansas State University researcher says employers should be concerned about the well-being of their employees because it could be the underlying factor to success."
Science Daily (Feb. 4, 2009) — "One's happiness might seem like a personal subject, but a Kansas State University researcher says employers should be concerned about the well-being of their employees because it could be the underlying factor to success."
This was the opening to an article in Science Daily...now in reading this and taking note of all the crap that goes on in the workplace, you'd think that more and more employers would take a bit of heed from such learned words, no?
No..they really don't. How many times have you started a job, see the place to be a really great place to work, only to reach the point of total disillusionment by your third year in?
Hell, some people don't even take that long, I've seen new employee's come in and within six months time, they are already feeling what I'm feeling now...No, not burn out, I've been in this game too damn long for that, would have burned out a long time ago, no, I'm talking about frustration.
When you're told that "This job promotes solely on your merit's, and the noticeable work that you do"...and that you have to be in your position for six months before you can promote up, then you see some guy not even four months out of training get promoted and when you ask what gives, the answer you get is a stock "Well, he showed really good improvement on his scores.." Yeah..BULLSHIT! I don't care if he was the fucking Dali-lama's brother in law, in the workplace, what applies to one grunt, applies to all! The Real reason, two supervisor's on the floor, were buddies of his..end of story.
Favoritism...Gotta love it. The Cliquish behavior of the High School mentality lives on in the work place folks..Think that's gonna make your employees happy?
DON'T FUCKING THINK SO!
If I lose out to someone, I would like to think that it was because they had the better skills...but when I have been doing a job for three years, and have 25 years of experience to back my play, and I lose a promotion to someone who kissed up to some dinkus' ego, OH HELL NO!
Oh and here's the topper, OK, Person A, goes around extolling the virtues of this new department that is opening up, spends her time, running around "RAH RAH, this is going to be a great thing, you should join, blah blah" tries to get people over to this team...Here's the kicker, she's only "recruiting" newbies...at the behest of the person that is to be the supervisor of this new team, why? One could only guess it's something to do with all the "fresh start" idea crap they have going...but if that is so, why put out all the emails regarding this new team, and the "you have the chance to be in on the GROUND FLOOR" jazz?..Then when it comes time for the interviews for these positions, alot of the people that applied for it, I knew, had worked or been working for the company for sometime, some as long as two and a half, three years..figured, they knew the product, should be a shoe in, right?
WRONG.
Turns out, person that was going to be running this show, already had her peeps picked out, the interview's were a dog and pony show...Ms.Rah-Rah, was one, the rest were mostly from the Supe's previous team, and the others were newbies...fresh from training.
Yeah, talking about people feeling screwed over..
oh, did I apply, you ask? no..why? because I've been in the sales game before, and I don't feel like going thru that again...but like I said, I know people that did, and it was pretty unfair.
And ever since, now all we do is clean up after this team..Oh and Ms.Rah-Rah? She moved on to another team...apparently the sales game wasn't all it was cracked up to be...Stimulating, isn't it...
See, when your employees are made to feel like second class citizens, and not like valued members of the machine, then the machine is going to break down..Yeah, you can always go out and hire new ones, but all that time you
take to train new employees, when you have knowledge and expertise there, waiting to be utilised, just stagnating because you can't figure out a productive way to put that talent to good use, well, that's just too damn bad for you...and the company..and the employees...
And that's when the machine breaks down.
What are we left with then?
Spare parts and broken hearts.
A little give on both parts, the employer, and the employee can keep the machine rolling along smoothly. Not saying you have to kiss each other's ass, not saying you have to give into "The Man", just saying all we have to do is cooperate with each other, respect each other, get rid of the "Us Vs. Them" mentality, send that clique mentality back where it belongs...High School...and get back to what everyone wants, a happy and safe place to work.
Peace people..
