Tacky corporations. Things in the shitter.

[Grim Reaper]

Since when is sending via e-mail corporate congratulations type stuff for saving a company a Million appropriate?

Yes a $$$$$$$Million US dollars was saved by my actions.

I did some leg work that saved the company an estimated Million dollars and I get E-Mails as the thank you and had to request my $100 award myself.

I'm sorry I take offence that the company cant send a piece of stationary actually signed by human hand and sport for a stamp to get it to me. It was tacky as hell and it apparently is corporate policy since I got simular E-mails from 3 directors and 2 vice presidents. Some were obviously done by Secretaries or the "pat on the back department" so I doubt a few of these folks, who's names are on the bottom in and official digital signature (the modern day stamp) even know I got these e-mails. I have gotten more rewarding feeling of praise for doing less in the past.


When I started with this company if I had done something like this the President of the company would have come down, taken a picture with me, taken me to lunch and given me a nice presentable award and a Framed certificate of thanks or accomplishment for a job well done. I would have felt they actually gave a crap. At the very least he would have picked up a phone and called me personally and had the award FedEx to my boss to give me and apologised for not being able to present it himself.

Hell the President knew me by name and made a point to talk to every employee if he came by the office to see how they were. Doubt I will ever meet the president of this company other then a knob polishing session for the newsletter when I will be run though in a line on a stage with all the other award winners.


I use to get at least a Coffee mug for just submitting a ideas (see picture below). Things that were presentable that I could put on my desk or hang on the wall. Now that I actually did something that saved some big money I get an e-mail as a thanks.


The longer I work for this place (I'm pushing 15 years) the worse they treat their employees and the more we all feel betrayed for all the effort we have put in. I use to be proud to work for this company. Now its just a job, that I really question it's future, I work to pay the bills.

I guess I'll print my "e-mail" awards, frame one for the wall of my cube and put copies in my accomplishment folder with my resume for when these folks run the company into the ground and I have to find a new job.

People skills doesn't fit the corporate buisness plan these days I guess. Alienating the 10,000 employees does. It really is turning into "Office space".

I'm laying low and putting up with it till retirement, if they don't screw me out of my pension and after what it looks like they did to my medical I wouldn't be surprised if that was next.

Tacky is what I feel this whole experiance has been. I wish I had not been put in for this. I was just happy laying low ignorant to just how little the upper management now cares about the employee's that no real effort can be expended by them beyond having some office turd generate an e-mail and send it out on a e-mail account that is not even theirs that they probably are not even aware went out.

[skulltoy]

You have no balls if you don't send that as a reply to each and every "praise" email you recieved.


They have you right where they want you.

[4runner]

sounds a lot like Cingular...the neww ATT

[HalfFastFord]

Ummmm, yeah, I'm going to need you to move your office down to the storage room in the basement......................

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by skulltoy

You have no balls if you don't send that as a reply to each and every "praise" email you recieved.


They have you right where they want you.

Sad but true.

Nope not going to bother because they have made it a "job" to pay the bills. I just show up for the paycheck. Not going to do anything about it. No sense. Wouldn't matter. The people in charge really don't give a fawk about the grunts that do the work.

Its not a place I am proud of anymore. They have made it obvious across the board that they really don't care if you try harder. There is no point in trying harder.

Its sad...this company was listed in several magazines and even Clark Howard use to make mention of how this was one of the best companies to work for. Not anymore. Got too big and the upper management has completely lost touch with the employees. To many lines of management between the real power and the folks near the bottom.

It will coast along for a while making money as the employees get more and more alienated and then one day it will hit bottom like the bloated pig it has become...Like IBM, K-Mart, WalMart, Ford, GM and any large corporation you have heard have a big crash.

The management forgot about the people supporting it at the bottom. They spent more time and money of research trying to figure out how to make them 2% more productive and cost effective and the answers and the the resulting new procedures and guidelines really made them 50% less productive and produced distention in the ranks. The typical result of to much management trying to justify themselves to their management. The trap that I really thought that they would avoid it getting this bad long enough for me to make retirement.

Its funny but I know people that bailed part of the company 10 years ago because of this and now those same management string now have control of this part of the company that was the profitable side. Now they are trying to assimilate it to be like the half that so many bailed from and so many of their customers site as why they leave for the competitors.

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by HalfFastFord

Ummmm, yeah, I'm going to need you to move your office down to the storage room in the basement......................

Hehehe Yeah I need to take my Swingline home this weekend and paint it red.

[xanthias]

Originally Posted by HalfFastFord

Ummmm, yeah, I'm going to need you to move your office down to the storage room in the basement......................

In everything you do, ask yourself [points to banner], "Is this good for the company?"

[Hillbilly]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

Sad but true.



Its not a place I am proud of anymore. They have made it obvious across the board that they really don't care if you try harder. There is no point in trying harder.

Its sad...this company was listed in several magazines and even Clark Howard use to make mention of how this was one of the best companies to work for. Not anymore. Got too big and the upper management has completely lost touch with the employees. To many lines of management between the real power and the folks near the bottom.

It will coast along for a while making money as the employees get more and more alienated and then one day it will hit bottom like the bloated pig it has become...Like IBM, K-Mart, WalMart, Ford, GM and any large corporation you have heard have a big crash.

The management forgot about the people supporting it at the bottom. They spent more time and money of research trying to figure out how to make them 2% more productive and cost effective and the answers and the the resulting new procedures and guidelines really made them 50% less productive and produced distention in the ranks. The typical result of to much management trying to justify themselves to their management. The trap that I really thought that they would avoid it getting this bad long enough for me to make retirement.

Its funny but I know people that bailed part of the company 10 years ago because of this and now those same management string now have control of this part of the company that was the profitable side. Now they are trying to assimilate it to be like the half that so many bailed from and so many of their customers site as why they leave for the competitors.

I always wondered how things were run on the other side of the company, you've confirmed my thoughts. I've been here 9 years, not aslong as you, but long enough to have seen the change and know it it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
This use to be a fine outfit to work for.

Hillbilly

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

I always wondered how thing were run on the other side of the company, you've confirmed my thought. I've been here 9 years, not aslong as you, but long enought to have seen the change and know it it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

Looks who's now in charge. He's making some of the stupid mistake that were made at IBM in underestimating demand of the customers in new services. The very thing that made this side of things so productive in such a short period of time.

For IBM it was "we are a main frame company. Personal computers will not catch on. We will put all our efforts into main frames and PC's will be a sideline we dabble in a little". Both my Parents were employees that rode that one in flames to the ground. Dad bailed out by having a coronary and dropped dead and getting the insurance for mom. Mom took a op out early retire and actually manage to get some benefits and everybody that stayed that was at her level got dumped on a temp company and royally screwed over.

Now he is trying to assimilate halve to the other to operate as one when they are on two different modes of operations. Jammed GPS's up all our FE's asses and pissed them all off. They made the rules in such a way that you punish yourself by being productive and and proactive with your time. a fawkin director actually told them "I will fire you if you do not use a MOP and do anything other then the ticket you were issued" Honest to god they are 50% less productive now that they are micromanaged. Their managers are calling when they are stuck in traffic jams asking why they are not moving. Not even joking about that.
The stupid thing is there is NO way we can operate that way. That side is pretty uniform in materials and for the most part you can carry enough material for 10 or 15 tickets on the truck. Not this side. 4 carrier technologies here and about 7 different power plants 5 different brands of supplementary boosters to support at our locations. Some of the rectifiers weigh 30lb and have 5 of them to run a site.

The uplink stuff is heavy big bulky stuff as well. Lets put it this way. I blew out two rear axles and on tranny in a 2 year period in a 1/2 ton truck just once a week supply runs to P&D's. It is impossible to carry enough spares to operate like you guys. Considering they are going to just be roving parts swappers now with this new way they are being told to work. The No Fault found on the gear is going to go through the roof because all the stuff that is not hardware is now going to be handled by the NOC. So the part will get swapped first because the NOC will be so swamped they will not try the software first. The ticket will get closed on the hardware and out the door that guy will go after the part swap if it fixed the problem or not. The FE will not diagnose...they have been told not to. If they see another problem while there they have been told not to touch it till a ticket is issued. How stupid is that?

They all got a subscription to the paper so they can have something to do between tickets just like you guys do. The people that issue the tickets miss major outs for DAYS that they would catch on their own sitting on their couch checking their locations each morning.

I'm not quitting anytime soon but I am going to keep my eyes open and try to jump before the big flaming crash. Just hope I have enough time in to get a decent early out offer and severance. I'm figuring it will be about the time Monopoly actually makes it to the court system.

Management is a funny thing. They just keep making the same mistake as the last company. All the while patting themselves on the shoulders and jerking off the shareholders with a smile then boom you get one of these deals.
http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch..._homedepot.cfm

[deke]

Originally Posted by HalfFastFord

Ummmm, yeah, I'm going to need you to move your office down to the storage room in the basement......................

OOo ooo ooo I'm milton for the pbb. I moved the boxes out of this storage room for my office. I almost dun got myself a desk that doesnt eat pens.

The entrance to my .... area..


rockum sockum spill proof desk.