What's worse than caring TOO much?
Caring too much and no one giving a crap. Yesterday I wrote about our agency's attempt to show our appreciation to our employees during a critical "battoning down of the hatches." Today, from an employee's personal blog, I find that not only were our efforts not appreciated, they were scoffed at.
Bottom line - we've created a monster.
Like a spoiled child that gets everything handed to them on a silver platter, it appears that employees can be no different at times. "Gimme Gimme Gimme" - is the mantra, and a simple, "Thank You" is nary to be heard. I feel like the team "bitch," running all over the city to pick up "just the right Chinese food," and losing sleep over the fact that I couldn't come up with something better than an in-house masseuse on short notice. And then today, I hear that not only is that not good enough, people are threatening to quit? What the hell?
I know I shouldn't feel this way, but now I know how my parents felt when I selfishly expected things in my teenage years. Or when I complained about not being able to have the Guess jeans that everyone else was wearing. Or when nothing my mom tried to do was ever good enough.
I want to say, "You think your job is bad? Please, I have worked in places that make Hell look attractive, get over yourselves!" But I can't say that - oh, no. I am HR and HR just can't say those things, can we?
Is anything ever good enough - did we do this to ourselves? Should we not care and just act like everyone else and say "Suck it up and deal?" I don't know the answer to that, but right now, I feel like turning this car around.
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