Hey John after the he-l you put 2,000 of us through the past 1.5 weeks; needless to say I don't want to join your stupid book club.
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Over 300 of us signed up for this in October. It looks like ot was limited to the first 75 people that signed up though.
This seems like a page straight out of the Michael Scott book of management.
Remember back when "empowerment" was the buzzword?
The company I worked for decided we should all read a chapter a week in some empowerment book and we'd meet as teams to discuss it. Someone asked if we were "empowered" to go purchase a copy and expense it. The answer was "No". If we didn't want to buy a copy , we were to share one among team members.
I think we met one week before the whole thing dissolved.
They control your wallpaper and removed your calculator.
Sweatshop environment…cram everybody together…watched like a hawk..and now the Covid cold going thru…I just try to stay in my lane and get thru the days…
He will have a book review but no questions will be allowed to be asked.
“Culture is the weather not the forecast”. Heard this great quote the other day and wish Fiserv executives understood how broken the culture is outside of their ivory tower, personal drivers, and private jets.
As the most basic level, culture is actions and not words. When leadership feeds us empty promises, paid-for recognition, continual layoffs, and micromanagement, the result will be a culture that lives on fear and chaos.
Multi millionaire executives never understand normal people. We just want to do our jobs and live our lives. Our lives are not work because our perspective is more than just money
I'm signing up for this for sure. More learning how our executives want us to thi k. Could me in.
Yea this is a hard pass
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No. The book of the month is "Frankserv iceberg is melting"
Is the book of the month "Who Moved my Cheese?"
But one of the authors of the book is going to join in on the discussion. Think of the opportunity!
Gibbons will visit each COE so we can all gather round sitting on the floor and he'll read to us cause you know we can't read. Heck I can't even choose my own wallpaper.
What is book club about? Is this related to the get happy next week email?
The only people who are going to sign up, are boot lick@rs.