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Sir, our workers formed a union... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] haulyard 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 11 months ago

My company does it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Companies order cold pizza for employees as if it solves anything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 15 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Alexstarfire 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ours had a beer and wine party.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Alfredo's pizza cafe or pizza by Alfredo?

[–] Phegan 3 points 11 months ago

But they didn't have a melon party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

UN → Japan why?