IT Cookies
Now that my boss is the newly crowned CIO, he is always trying to find ways to improve morale. It’s not a surprising move - IT has repeatedly had the lowest employee satisfaction scores in the company, and in the past few months the scores have dropped even lower. In my boss’ defense, it isn’t his his fault and is something that can be fixed.
So my boss decided he wanted holiday cookies in every division today. Earlier this week I called around and made sure I could get them everywhere. For my office, and our satellite building about 10 minutes away, I purchased about $100 worth of cookies at my local Wegmans.
Wegmans has their own in-house bakery and they make great stuff. I gave a couple of containers to our satellite office (they will probably only have about 15 people in there today) and the rest went to my building. It was a pretty nice spread, and I hoped to have, you know, 1 - 2 cookies per person.
Then I sent out the notice from my boss’ email saying the holiday cookies are out in the break room, enjoy and have a happy holiday. Or whatever I said.
No sooner had I sent the email that I look up from my monitor and the droves are returning from the break room and, not with one or two cookies as I had estimated, but platefuls of cookies. I don’t think there will be enough for everyone. If anyone ends up not being able to get any cookies, I’m going to direct them to the greedy jerks who took off with small mountains of them.
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:57 am
Well, people with low morale will try to take as much as they can from the company because they feel they’re not being properly rewarded. If we didn’t have to pay for the cookies ourselves, I’d say to just get enough so that everyone can have their fill… but we are paying for them, so they’ll live.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
snerk
That reminds me of when one of the hurricanes came rolling through a couple of years back. Most everyone had to stay home because of downed power lines and what not. The office was open, and I made it in ok, and as a thanks for showing up, all cafeteria purchases were paid for by the company that day, mainly to just pay for people’s breakfast and lunch. People were leaving the cafeteria with BAGS of food like it was a grocery store. It was the most pitiful sight I’ve ever seen.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Wow, Mel. I don’t think it would even cross my mind to get bags of food.
Your story reminds me of when I worked at a particular company in north Seattle. Every year we held a company picnic at this beautiful park during a fair, and the company would provide a certain number of tickets for rides and games. Eventually, t company finally pulled the plug on the annual picnic because the manufacturing people would sweep through the food lines and take huge portions of food they couldn’t even finish, so that the food was all gone before half of the attendees could even get any. The worst part of it all was that these people didn’t even throw away their garbage — the picnic tables were covered with plates that were piled high with food and people who didn’t even get food were left to clean up the mess. That was the last year they held the company picnic.
I don’t know why people are so inconsiderate and greedy. It’s just unbelievable to me.