Marianne_not_Gingerâ„¢
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Riiiiiiiiiiiight.
Never work on the problem; just get rid of those that notice it. The ole "sweep the problem under the rug" trick. Even though I love my job, I hate how the place is run. Disgruntled employee? Well YEAH! I am. And time and time again I see morale issues being handled by reprimanding us and telling us to "act professionally." Threats being made to people that are unhappy with how something is run is ludicrious. It's such a "control" thing. People in authority hate to say, "I'm wrong." So they transfer blame to the common man and try to make the weak feel weaker. It blows my mind that not all people are willing to step back from a situation and seriously look at solutions to the greater whole.
Sure, fire all of the unhappy people. You will then probably have an empty workplace. But hey.....there won't be any complaints about how you run things now. *cough* Until you hire your next bunch of heathens. ;) |
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Dave
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Cattle prodding. A good electric shock up the wazoo will perk your morale RIGHT the hell up. Add to that a good dose of showing what a ruin the terminated peoples' lives have become will do some good as well. |
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medolfan1313
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That's similar to a conundrum I ran into when I was a junior Sailor in the Navy. When morale would sag, the salty old Chief would barge in and exclaim, "Liberty is secured until morale improves!" or "The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
Which, come to think of it, is akin to what my Common-law Stepmom used to tell me, "Quit crying or I'll smack you again!"
And, as it turns out, it's a pretty effective short-term tack. You'd be surprised how quickly your mood improves when faced with beatings or the loss of your freedom. You may be onto something Monitor! |
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OFF MY MEDS
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Every company in the world would then go out of business. The unhappy people are made that way by having to work with all the shallow perky airheads. Who do you think gets the job done while you retarded shiny happy people are running your friggin' mouths? I tell ya, if I ever go postal I'm gonna start with the ones who have the biggest smiles.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, I feel much better now. |
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arjan19661005
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Beat them until moral goes up! |
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Sanitizer
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Amazing timing Monitorhead. Just came from a meeting of disgruntled employees (I was one of them) and guess what,
I know this is going to be very difficult to imagine, but
the problem was with the Supervisor.....our position was
really clear to upper management, get rid of one stinky supervisor or have a mass exodus of difficult to find
trained employees, need to stay tuned for further developments. |
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Einstein
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Every time they ******, moan and groan about having to work...deduct from their pay...a quarter here , a dime there....Soon , they either are smiling and happy to work.or they quit.
Is it counter productive?Of course , but sure sounds like fun,watching their faces every pay period.lol |
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Jake Bananna
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I think that is a perfect solution. It sure would send a message to those who were merely content. Kind of put them on notice eh? |
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adieu
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I am not sure. I did this with a couple of trainees once--they had other issues, trust me. But it just instilled fear in every one else. Everyone thought me and the other supervisors were on a genocide mission. No one felt safe. Firing makes the masses nervous.
I think we need to convince the unhappies to leave on their own accord. Be blatantly honest with them regarding how darn depressing they are or outright lie to them and tell them how much happier they will be elsewhere. Or the subtle hint of leaving psycho-therapist cards on their desk is good too.
The other option is giving them their own office and locking the door when they go in. |
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i think that is the way to go...unhappy people make me unhappy |
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mdfalco71
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Nooooo....morale problems would all be solved by firing all the peppy, smiley bouncy people who can get in early, enthuse all morning long, not eat chocolate, or eat it and still be a size "stick-bloody-thin". Y'know, people who bring a "can-do" attitude to work. Get rid of these freaks, and a) their morale won't suffer a jot, cos nothing could bring these people down, and b) the rest of us won't feel the urge to go postal and finger-flick them into next week. |
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sonyack
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As on the coffee cup: "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Seeing people being fired for being "unhappy" will really put smiles on people's faces, cheer them right up. |
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witchrhizu
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Are you kidding me? There's be about 1/3 the staff left at any job, fast food would close, and who would be left to make fun of at work? I consider it a perk of working watching them, they get so expressive that it's entertaining. Probably the only "real" solution to morale would be to have Pez dispensers full of Valium dispersed among co-workers. |
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chickenhounk911
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NOt just firing them. First there would be an opportunity to help them. If that doensn't work, then "letting them go" would e the next step. Happy people get the workplace morale up. |
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bobo
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Had to do it they were chasing all of my customers away and making the other employees become disgruntled. |
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