Employee Appreciaton Week

[shugknight]

Re: Employee Appreciaton Week

Shug - I get what you're saying, but I guess I've seen this so frequently that it doesn't bother me anymore. I see the CEO making 1.5 MIL per year and getting paid a bonus each year of 1.5x his salary (that doesn't count his stock options that are near 20MIL). I work frequently with the CIO who's making over 400K per year and getting bonuses in excess of 1MIL and stock in the 5-8MIL range. I also see myself with a nice salary, but no stock options arriving at the office before both these people and often leaving after them....only to go home and work more remotely. I guess that's life?

I disagree with your CEO's statement that morale should not be affected by money (and I've heard that before from the CIO when fighting for more money for one of my guys). People can say what they want, but money's important...that's the bottom line for me. I wouldn't work the hours or put in the time if it weren't for the money. However, I wouldn't be upset with not getting much for EAW. Just a gimic IMO anyway.

I usually work 60+ hours most weeks as I have 2 guys working for me and we support over 150 servers, 700 retail stores (west coast as well...with no second/third shift) and 300 internal users so we don't have the manpower to support our environment. I'm the boss so I try to protect them and suck it up and deal with the extra hours/work when I can, but what annoys me is being at the office every Saturday for an entire month for outages...it's simply too much for a small team to handle without cracking. To top it off, all I've asked is for mgmt to give my employee's comp time and apparently that isn't going to happen. It's very rare to see a company offer OT to a salaried employee. If that was an option, I'd have no problem working the extra hours.

Yes, all these damn crooks run our company down to the ground, and while the lower-level employees suffer with unemployment, those executives are the laughing at their "extended vacation" and heavy bank accounts. Effin bastards!

Ok, maybe I did sound like I was complaining that I wasn't getting much for EAW, but honestly, if they would of never mentioned anything about Employee Appreciation Week, I'm sure that most if not all of us would have never thought twice about not getting an Appreciation Week.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that my company spent all this time/money on preparing for an Employee Appreciation Week, but they half-assed it. Instead of making the employees feel appreciated with these activities, we feel even more unappreciated because of the lack of thought that went into this week.

The could of bought us a 100 foot Subway Sandwhich and asked us to share amongst each other and we'd feel better than this entire week of crap.