@ab
You're definitely "leadership" here fishing for ideas of what sort of bait to dangle on a hook in front of "the little people", in your effort to move some of the masses of people who applied for the VSP over into the "changed their minds and are now staying" category.
You're in a panic, because otherwise the VSP payouts are going to cost the company so much more $ than what your group had originally assumed to budget for.
You let it slip that you're being a fake@ss infiltrator here in two instances, within one post.
Not very smart, are you?
1) "we all know discussions of how to retain employees due to this mess is already underway." ORLY? Because what I see on this board is discussions amongst those affected, regarding the VSP, its terms, how those terms have now changed, people who may be still on the fence, etc. Nobody who's a regular employee is discussing "how to retain employees due to this mess", because it's not their job to be concerned about that! Only "leadership" gives a fu*k about retaining employees, because if you lose every employee that applied for the VSP, your entire business would go under! It's really urgent and important for YOU to retain employees at this point, but the average joe worker isn't concerned about that.
2) You said, "I was simply trying to get us better benefits..." Again, this is something someone in a "leadership" position would be able to do. Average worker bees don't GET themselves and their coworkers benefits. They don't have that kind of pull. They might be polled on what they'd prefer to be presented with, but they aren't in a position of actively being able to GET those benefits going for themselves.
#BUSTED