Getting a free ice cream one day definitely makes up for commuting 156 days annually to take teams calls from a noisy cubicle
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@ej 24 years for me tossed out on the street. Cause I couldn't do 3 day week. Something like that. Wasn't even anything work related far as my performance. Silly rule. I don't even think is a policy....
@bq I can get spend money and get ice cream and cookies myself.
Bring back the good stuff. Talking Wachovia era here, but Monetary and beneficial awards something that'd actually help (star awards, bonuses, company dinners and lunches off-site. Dept parties Christmas events, free pto days, family care time).
Instead we always got pizza and it seemed like they (leadership) dreaded doing it and a chore to celebrate not to be bothered eat get back to work no socializing and that made me after awhile, feel i owed them something. Doing us a favor.
@a4 when the shift to wfh for covid, the company should have stayed remote. Period.
I was able get a macadamian nut cookie after it was all picked thru at WEC. Meanwhile other locations are going all out having parties.
it's a shame our team works remote, our site leader won't be able to pass out ice cream sandwiches on a little cart with a fake smile pretending to give a sh1t
Just in this thread alone, you've got haters, whiners, and people that understand the job and know they control their own fate. If WF didn't have EAW, most of you would complain still.
It's a joke. They don't care about the employees. They do enough to put up the appearance and that's it. Ask all the high performing employees getting let go. We have lost so many really good people. Then on top of that they are messing with people's reviews, livelihoods to justify putting you on the list of the "next to go". Plus, they don't account for these "events" in their Productivity tracking. So, do they want you to attend or what?
You are number to them. Period.
The whole week is a complete waste of time and $$. Whoever thought of it should be laid off for gross inefficiency and time theft.
Scott Powell handing out scoops of ice cream to the same employees that are all going to be IM’d and then Indiscriminately chainsawed is going to make people feel appreciated?!? How d-mb do people have to be to work here???!?
I would appreciate it if WF would stop abusing employees with the daily psyops.
WF is a trash company with greedy leaders that do NOT appreciate the employees.
I know people who were laid off during a employee appreciation week event. You would think they'd not do it that week.
@bg you may not see it if you work at a smaller site or at a branch. At the large corporate offices, once a year they'll have a few days where they hand out food and minor swag and the execs come to shake people's hands. Its not a bad thing per se, but they've put a ton of emphasis on it since RTO, and it's pretty sad that anyone in leadership might think a WF keychain and a free sh-t-quality taco once a year does anything to make up for having to commute to take teams calls when gas costs $5 a gallon.
What? people get free ice cream and cookies? This must be a great company
@OP
What is Employee Appreciation week?
Yeah, well, everyone used to walk to work our ride a horse to, so get to it.
Literally tens of thousands worked remote. It wasn't rare or unusual, and it saved the company a ton of money. But go on talking about RTO like it's a good business decision. It's Fing with employees to try to get them to quit, and nothing more.
@b3 my employer, WF - told me I was 100% remote going forward. That was a bunch of BS.
@a8 most of us took a job to do what our employer tells us to do. Sometimes that includes, gasp things we might not want to do. Kind of like life. But go on trying to fight everyone with no hope.
@ag mmmmmm, frosting
Can’t wait for my cookie loaded with Red 40 frosting!
@a2 if you're working every day in office, and you don't need to, I feel bad for you. You're just as much a victim of this regime as people who go in 3 or 4 days a week for no reason. Even more so, really.
On the other hand, if you took a job that you knew up front requires on-site presence, and you're getting mad at people who worked to build careers where they don't have to do that, and trying to drag them down to your level, you're part of the problem, and get zero sympathy from me
You mean those people who took a job, knowing it had to be done in person due to the nature of the work? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't care.
If you want to talk pathetic, however, let's shift over to your incessant bootlicking. Almost as if you are unfit for any other purpose.
Those people that have to go into work 250 days a year (in other words almost everyone else) think you're pathetic.