Today marks the 228th birthday of the United States of America. I have been truly blessed to live in the greatest nation in the world. The freedom that we have been given has allowed this country to prosper beyond compare.
Freedom gives individuals the right to start a business and make it succeed or fail. It is the right to speak or write concepts whether others agree with them or not. The founding fathers paved the way to allow the most important freedom, freedom of religious expression.
Yet, why is it, that companies have a tendency to lay down various policies that take freedom away from their employees? Don't take this the wrong way. I am not opposed to policies, per se, but when there is a policy for everything, warning bells should go off.
Recently I learned of a company that has enacted certain policies that take away rights of those that work there. In fact, I would say that instead of giving their employees freedom, they are running the company like a dictatorship. This is exact opposite of how a company should be run, because it screams “I don't trust my employees”.
Instead of building a team, where everyone is working towards a common goal, the company is erecting walls. It is becoming a place with an “us” verses “them” mentality. How can a company achieve its goals with all of the internal fighting going on? The bottom line is that it cannot.
Companies that trust their employees are not worried about setting policies for everything. Instead, they empower their employees. They grant them freedom.
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Sounds like <insert company name here>.
Stop this kind of skullduggery, or we'll take away your right to free speech too!
Let recent developments be a reminder...in some corners of America, free speech is a privilege, not a right.
Best wishes Rick.
...Was that the sound of an entire I.T. department being let go???... released by the non-technical folks who think they can simply hire in “outsourced” workers that will immediately know where to pick up and what is best to do? *FLUSH* Yup! There goes our main RAD resource... *FLUSH* Oops, there goes one of the better new technology gurus, off to start his own consulting firm. *FLUSH-FLUSH-FLUSH* Hmmm, the handle must have gotten stuck. I hope I am sucking up to the right people properly. I would hate to have to leave my nice cuddley company in search of a BETTER POSITION ELSEWHERE!!
...don't be a stranger RR. I know I won't be!!!
It is unfortunate when the powers that be choose to silence the voice of truth rather than address the truth itself. This action will only serve to further harm an already injured company. Do they really fear the truth that much, or are they just too arrogant to see the harm they are doing? Sorry you had to pay while others who should stand up are still unwilling to voice their opinions... Except perhaps through a union rep.
Good luck RR.
After cutting costs to the bone and continuing to implement new efficiencies and improve service, we now have entered a new age.
Employee performance rewards Seem to have suffered some sort of inversion syndrome, with the new reward scheme of bonus and benefit cuts.
Continually striving to get Employee remuneration down to an “industry average” works, if you want “Average Employees”. But I don't think we want “Average Employees”.
Hooah RR !
Good luck
I'm on board with the need to protect Freedom of Speech, but what ever happened to another of our sacred tenets: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY? A lot of vitriol with no substance is being tossed around with at best circumstantial evidence to support the mudslinging. How is it that everyone is so absolutely certain it was a certain person who elevated notice of the soapbox? It's a fact that someone else was surreptitiously dropping printouts of the soapbox in people's cubes. How do you know for certain it wasn't a recipient that elevated it? Is it possible that it wasn't the website itself that ended the relationship, or is it possible that some idiot who actually mentioned the company's name on the website may have been a factor? I also know that there was a lot of heat to get the project done on time, and the delivery date kept getting pushed off. Maybe that had something to do with it? The fact is that we don't know, and the person all the anger is being directed toward did not and does not have any hiring or firing authority.
Get a grip and stop the lynch-mob mentality. No one, except maybe Rick and the cushy carpet, knows what the real reason is.
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Amen Brother!