So now the supervisors wear idiotic little vests in the callcenter....
It must have gone like this:
"We've got some money left over in the budget and morale is poor. We can't understand why, as we've tried to make this one of the most uncaring cube-farms in the area next to Stream (the local McDonald's of tech support). What can we do to improve this?"
"Bonuses to the best of the best?"
*general sound of laughter*
"A way to better identify the supervisors that, while useless to anyone who's worked more than a week, is also detracting from their image as approachable, respectable people who are above the bullshit they're made to inflict upon the techs?"
"Good idea! But how?"
"I know! Let's make them wear blue construction-worker vests with their name on the breast and their contract on the back!"
"Jolly good! That'll buck up those agents!"
"Uh, won't that also have the affect of letting the agents identify targets from a distance and through the haze of red when they finally snap and come to work with a sawed off pump action 12-guage?"
"Tut tut, my good man. We have no less than THREE signs admonishing the little miscreants not to bring firearms into the building, and a crack team of underpaid, nowhere-near-their-prime, unarmed, uncaring, slothful security guards! We'll be fine!"
"Cool! Let's give ourselves bonuses with the savings!"
"Capital idea! The souls of our employees do so very nicely cushion my hemorrhoids, I could do with more!"
"We've got some money left over in the budget and morale is poor. We can't understand why, as we've tried to make this one of the most uncaring cube-farms in the area next to Stream (the local McDonald's of tech support). What can we do to improve this?"
"Bonuses to the best of the best?"
*general sound of laughter*
"A way to better identify the supervisors that, while useless to anyone who's worked more than a week, is also detracting from their image as approachable, respectable people who are above the bullshit they're made to inflict upon the techs?"
"Good idea! But how?"
"I know! Let's make them wear blue construction-worker vests with their name on the breast and their contract on the back!"
"Jolly good! That'll buck up those agents!"
"Uh, won't that also have the affect of letting the agents identify targets from a distance and through the haze of red when they finally snap and come to work with a sawed off pump action 12-guage?"
"Tut tut, my good man. We have no less than THREE signs admonishing the little miscreants not to bring firearms into the building, and a crack team of underpaid, nowhere-near-their-prime, unarmed, uncaring, slothful security guards! We'll be fine!"
"Cool! Let's give ourselves bonuses with the savings!"
"Capital idea! The souls of our employees do so very nicely cushion my hemorrhoids, I could do with more!"
