I'm not sure who's driving it but, as a tech, and as a professional with many years under my belt, I really do not need, nor do I desire, the incessant, daily, robot-like, fake, auto-generated, non-human-like, "rah, rah, rah", "thanks for the outstanding effort today" kudo-type texts that I, and the rest of my brothers and sisters on the wireline side, keep getting from management.
I don't know if the powers that be are even aware that this very transparent low-brow approach, the st-----g-your-dopey-dog-workers'-heads'-between-their-ears-until-their-collective-legs-start-pounding-the-floor, wanting nothing more, is so blatantly obvious
and condescending.
Is this behavior actually deemed by some ignorant, pretentious, higher-up-the-chain-flunky-muckety-muck as some sorta of sought-after-and-needed reward to us knuckleheads in the field.
Please, for Christ's sake, just STOP IT.
How insecure would one need to be, how attention-needing, daddy-please-love-me, would a person have to be to that recommended that this even become a thing?
What's next, we get a ping-pong table and a pizza party? WOO-HOO, who even needs a raise!!
FYI: It's so transparently patronizing to your intended audience.
Bottom line is, you don't like us, we know this, you haven't in years (with the exception of one CEO who genuinely and greatly valued the wireline side, who appreciated us, who appreciated our 1st level foremen, and who appreciated our collective efforts our team made and the successes we enjoyed).
So, save the happy horse s--t and
- try following the Golden Rule.
- Just pay us,
- leave what's left of our previously-promised, remaining benefits in place,
- stop blaming every injury on the worker and maintaining it's never job-related,
- stop passing the buck and letting it roll downhill,
- stop the dishonesty,
- spare us the false platitudes, the attaboys, and,
- take a moment to consider morality, to consider decency, to consider what's right, rather than your bottom line.
- ...and, To Consider that too many of our old-timers, our retirees, the people who, after a lifetime's toiling and are now grandmothers/fathers and great-grandmothers/fathers, now find themselves too-often suffering economic hardship.
These men and women should be given the most respect, should be honored as our predecessors, these people who built this industry in which you and I were lucky enough to have now landed a career within.
For the financially-hurting retirees, those individuals that dedicated their lives and served the company well, please recognize that their contributions and sacrifices to this enterprise's current and continuing success was accomplished on the foundation of their efforts, on their now too-oftentimes endlessly suffering backs.
They have earned and are long-passed due, their DESERVED COLA.
It's just just!