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Apr 28, 2017, 08:01 AM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,089
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This probably belongs elsewhere, since it really doesn't have anything to do with fibro, but I just need to vent.
This week has been employee "appreciation" week at work. Yes, I meant to put quotes around appreciation. We got an e-mail last week telling us all the exciting things that were going to happen this week.
It started with a "big surprise" on Tuesday. Some of my co-workers though maybe we were getting a bonus or raise. I knew that wasn't gonna happen. The "big surprise" turned out to be a cheap plastic cup with the company logo on it, a cheap pen with the company logo and some pieces of candy. I'm sorry (not really) that doesn't make me feel appreciated. It's an insult. I bust my arse for the company and to show appreciation they give me some cheap junk? 
Wednesday they arranged to have pizza delivered to the offices. Thing is most of us work in the field. I work at a satellite office 40 miles from the office where the pizza was delivered. Drive 40 miles - ONE WAY - and rearrange my schedule in order to have some free pizza? Nah.
Yesterday they had a drawing for employees to receive company related stuff - t-shirts with the logo, that sort of thing. Absolutely NO ONE on my team got anything.
The capper to all this is the company sponsored picnic today. We are expected to arrive at our work site at the usual time and clock in, then clock out when it is time for the picnic. WTF?!?!?! In the past we were allowed to just go to the picnic. What's ludicrous in my case is that my work site is in the opposite direction of the picnic. I would get there in time to turn around and leave! What's so absolutely ridiculous about the employee "appreciation" picnic is that attendance is mandatory!  So I have to drive two hours to a picnic I don't want to attend to receive a free hamburger. Then drive home through Friday rush hour traffic. Oh yes, I forgot to mention EMPLOYEES HAVE TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOOD BESIDES THE BURGERS!!!! Again, WTF!?!?!?
None of this tells me I am appreciated. What it tells me is that senior management came up with ideas that make them think make them look good to the employees. Everyone I've talked to says they are insulted by all this crap.
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