Anyone else’s workplace doing this “Standards of Behavior” stuff?

“Standards of Behavior” for XXXXXXXX Workplace. Ta-da!

All employees attended a meeting about standard of behavior, including “I will” statements, such as:
“I will embrace change by being flexible, positive, proactive and resourceful.”

And signing a “Standards of Behavior” banner…..

Meanwhile, two HR directors in a row quit partly in response to what they perceived as unethical conduct by the owners.

You have to be really bad to get the spineless scum who take jobs in HR to quit.

I guess all the liberals I work with in my HR department are all evil anyway huh? You are a moran.

you'll get an ulcer if you go through life taking everything seriously.

We did have to do the emotional intelligence thing once.

I thought that with budget being so tight this sort of thing would have been cut. Oh wait they're doing this so you'll take the blue pill when they announce that salaries are frozen this year aren't they?

Whatever they were paying the lady who taught it, it was way too much. She was just horrible.

Can't wait to be subjected to this.

What will it be next year I wonder.

upper management. We did go from doing yearly reviews to quarterly reviews and goal callibration. YUCK!!! The new administration is keeping everyone stepping.

Which guarantees that I'll never get a good job, I fear. Aspies don't do "team player"...

that woman reminded me of someone I used to work with. Death would have been to good for her.

first thing to go as companies tighten their belts. Never could understand why they waste time on idiocy that most people just sneer at in the first place.

Years ago I was an overworked middle school teacher in a parochial school. The principal came up with a lengthy questionnaire that was supposed to help me understand my personality type. I took about a minute to fill it out, just filling in any old bubble as I went along. At an after school discussion of the results, I was called on the carpet for not taking the stupid thing seriously and for using the meeting as a time to grade papers. I was further chastised for not being a "team player." God, I hate that shit. Just leave me alone and let me do my job.

see corporate execs. take an enforced standards of behavior from the employees under them.

back in the 80's. The execs paid no attention to any "rule" in the employee handbook. Those applied to peons only. Christmas happened to fall on a Wednesday that year. Employees were allowed only Wednesday off, and a memo came down that no one was to take any extra vacation time. One woman begged for an extra day off to visit family in another state. Request denied. Meantime, the guy who sent the memo out went skiing from Dec. 23 - Jan. 2. The same idiot severely reprimanded an employee for "excessive time off." This was because the man's toddler had been hospitalized with and died from cancer. When that same boss's mother was ill, he was gone for weeks - no questions asked.

Some corporations are run like plantations in the old South - cruel masters and voiceless slaves.

As I recall employees had to give up a Saturday at one point to attend some stupid ass touchy feely seminar called "Fulfill your potential." I fulfilled mine by getting the hell out.

enough when starting in the corp. world to foolishly believe most corps. had the best interests of employees in mind. I learned fast. I think some corps. still do, but anymore I think that is by far the exception. In some corps. even if execs. have the best of intentions, that certainly doesn't translate down the management feeding chain.

I had a friend once that wanted to better themselves... get more education, etc. and wanted some general guidance. The HR head was an absolute asshole. Threw a dime at them and said, "Go call someone that cares."

programs have any relationship to the people who come up with the Vacation Bible school programs?


(For those who have no idea what i am talking about, there is a small industry packaging Vacation Bible school programs with banners, puzzles, coloring sheets etc wrapped around a theme like Cowboys for Christ or Pirates seek Biblical Treasures etc.)

An exercise in corporate hypocrisy.

Ie -- these are the personality traits we feel will be successful in this role. It doesn't matter how well you do your job, you need to think and feel x while you are doing it or you are a failure...

we used to have. My female co-workers and I one day asked the boss where these "harassers" were hanging out so we could, ya know, get a little harassment to boost our fragile (albeit single) egos. He was a repub of course, was not amused. "You need to get serious about this annoyance in the workplace." I retired shortly after...LOL. I mean, if you have to sit through boring, time-wasting meetings like these, you should at least have heard of someone/anyone being harassed. As far as being flexible, positive, proactive and resourceful...that's why they hired me in the first place. Sounds like HR trying to justify their jobs to me...

"It's not sexual harassment if you like it"

they gave him a piece of paper that said he was certified in sexual harassment.All that "work" and no one noticed how the certificate read.

Mission statements, mandatory "FAA Mission" briefings, plasma monitors spewing pro-"team" propaganda...

I remember the good old days when I just went to work and kept airplanes from bumping into each other.

Do they play "Celebration", cranked up to max-volume, and make you greet your neighbor and shake hands?

kind of stuff at the local middle school. The administrators put up a banner saying "I will be a good friend" and force the kids to sign it. When the principal's back is turned, some kids will inevitably deface it, and down it comes. If 12-year-olds don't take this shit seriously, what makes some corporate toady think an adult will?

and unless management really is gung ho and follow it themselves, it will amount to nothing. 6 months from now, unless strictly enforce, it will vanish.

this is just a lame attempt at thought control to help usher in a smooth transition when our new Chinese overlords take over.

I'm only half kidding with that previous statement.

:puke:

if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

that movie.

I LMAO every time I watch it :rofl:

It goes with a "Stepford" work environment.

"I will take this pay cut and smile while the CEO gets a big fat raise"
"I will allow XXXX to strip me of my dignity because expecting to be treated with respect is above my station"
"I will do more work for less pay and be grateful because I'm just a lowly peon"

Am I getting the gist of it right?

Your company could force you to go to one of Bush's 'motivashunal' speechifying thingies where he repeats himself, you know, to catapult the propaganda.

Count your blessings

when I worked there briefly earlier this year. They made you attend seminars where they taught you how to talk with the members and encourage them in their exercise regimen. I saw more ugly, fat old men prancing naked around the locker room like 2 year olds in the buff than I ever wanted to see, and they wanted me to schmooze with them. No way, Jose.

Is this standard for the Y?

a female locker room, and a family locker room which also has individual rooms in it. I have no idea what is standard or if there is a standard. After about a month there I decided, much to their surprise, that I simply did not want to work there. That's one of my rules--I refuse to work somewhere I do not like and I have the freedom to obey that rule.

Complete with over sized solid steel pens that weighed over a pound each engraved with "Your Signature, Your Integrity"

invented unions.

The usual sexual harassment meetings and had to sign a agreement and the no horse play signed that too.

The only sexual harassment I saw were the big shots and as far as horse play which was really always harmless practical jokes , but they enforced them and sucked any bit of a sense of humor right out of the place.


They even expanded sexual harassment to bar even touching another employee on the shoulder.

What we ended up with were people walking around like robots. They even had the phone operators answer each call with , it's a great day at such and such.

1-800-GRAB-ASS


Management would not see the humor in that one :rofl:

I'm so glad I'm retired and don't have to put up with corpo-crap.

Second rule of Real-World Sexual Harassment: If you think he is attractive, it's not harassment. (I'm talking about women who like men).

I'm so glad I don't work for a company any more. I may be poor but I am free of that kind of awful nonsense.

Always make your employees fearful of losing or changing the meaning of their jobs and you can run roughshod over them......it's the company way. Always remember.....YOUR BOSS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!!

always go from A to B, you can never just.. enjoy life.

I thought the "people" in that book were twats who only wanted money, and didn't understand the value of just living.

Oh well, the idea is not that bad. When things change - change alone with them.

Must.stay.subservient.

despiute the fact that the place was run like a prison camp (for the employees) was not allowed. You could get a disciplinary action for any criticism or complaint that was overheard by any supervisor or any other emplolyee who wanted to report you. This was under the PA Department of Public Welfare, in a state mental hospital.

mark

This crap goes totally over my head until it is too late because of my Asperger's Syndrome. I really cannot work under any supervisor that doesn't tolerate honest criticism, I end up getting fired.

no matter where I worked. I got the supervisor fired at a rehab, gave written testimony in a lawsuit against another that got an injured employee compensation, spent years as a union steward and was upset because the union would not back me on my boss hunt.

All I can tell you is get into somewhere with a strong union, or get your own business - otherwise work will be intollerable for you. I have never had a job I really looked forward to or felt "rewarded" by in my life. I sort of envy those who do, but it's outside my experience and I have a decent retirement now that I love.

Good luck to you.

mark

:hi:

in line. . . This country needs a strong UNION MOVEMENT!

they still have left to enjoy were forged and brought by the unions. Unions played such an extremely important part in creating more of a labor management team instead of management running all over labor. Employees today have little voice, especially in these mega-corporations. You're just some number someplace with no feedback or voice. Today's corporate environment really sucks. You are so correct, "This country needs a strong UNION MOVEMENT!"

one consistent with strong union principles.