July 17, 2003
Treating Employees like Children
It's getting tougher to be an employee every day. While only a few short years ago, the employee rules the roost, the balance has so clearly swung the other way. Now companies are treating their employees like children.
SBC SmartPages salespeople face Friday afternoon "detention" for failing to hit sales targets. These sessions include getting yelled at by managers and being forced to read from the bonus plan manual.
And ebay is now strictly forbidding its employees from talking at their desks. "If you are caught talking at your desk, you will be escorted into a meeting room and questioned as to why you are talking, and if it is relevant to your job. If not, you may be subjected to disciplinary actions." Maybe they can assign them to SmartPage's detention, too?
Posted by blipsman at July 17, 2003 02:49 PM