The Vice President of our company, our Regional Manager and District Manager are all supposed to meet at our store today. You ought to see the worker bees go! We're dusting, moving, filling, building, straightening and re-straightening.
All of the things we are supposed to do on a daily basis.
Jumping through hoops is not my favorite pastime. If you do things right, you are always ready for any visitor you may have.
I saw on a friend's FaceBook page that the Target store he worked at had just had a bad visit from their District Manager. It was another case of people almost finishing their work. What is it with people that they want to do exactly what it takes to get by, and less if they can get away with it? To me, that is theft. These people are being paid to do a job, and by intentionally not doing their job, yet still collecting a paycheck, they are stealing from the company.
When I interview someone for a job, they always tell me how hard they will work, how smart and well trained they are, and how their prior experience is going to put the company I work for on the map. Then when I hire them, some go through a comfort zone metamorphosis and place themselves in the "exactly what I have to do and nothing more, less if I can get away with it" category. All I know is they sold me something in that interview, and I want what I bought.
The bottom line is, as long as people are unwilling to take ownership and show accountability for their work, there will always be a hoop to jump through.
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*nods* I agree. I don't like looking at a work day in the amount of hours I spend there, but rather, in what I have to accomplish. If my top-priority tasks are completed, then the rest of my day goes smoother. If I have to spend all of my day at a task, because of the complexity of the job, I'm busy. And when I'm busy, I don't have time to think about how much time I'm "wasting" at work.
This is an on going problem that will always be there. I think some people procrastinate and thrive on the adrenaline rush of jumping through hoops. Others just have bad attitudes and are only motivated to get their pay checks. It definitely makes it harder for the ones who are there to put in an honest days work! Negativity is catchy so to do my part I try to spread as much positive influence as I can and I avoid listening to the ones who don't care. They have to learn the hard way. Like any other sickness going around, stay away from it! Happy employees and good employees go hand in hand and attitude is everything!
Staying away from the negatives was easier when I wasn't their boss. Instead of letting them learn the hard way, the temptation is to tell them to learn or GO away.
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