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In reply to the discussion: 5 Ways to Tell How Well a Potential Employer Would Treat You as an Employee [View all]FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)65. The order of events I've seen
1) Management conducts an anonymous employee satisfaction survey. The results are that morale stinks.
2) Management orders the employees to form groups to come up with suggestions as to how working conditions can be improved.
3) The groups come up with some reasonable, inexpensive, and easily implemented ideas
4) Management ignores the ideas and continues to do whatever it damned well pleases.
Of course, I've mostly worked for governmental organizations, but that seems to be SOP in every one.
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KurtNYC
Jul 2012
OP
Having a chit-chat with the receptionist will tell you a lot. They know everything...LOL..n/t
monmouth
Jul 2012
#1
No shit. It's like Carl in "Breakfast Club" said, "I am the eyes and ears of this institution."
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#3
It pays to be careful what you ask the receptionist, or maybe just HOW you ask.
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#10
People also hold on to their beaters longer when they're not confident of their economic situation.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jul 2012
#77
I'm self-employed now, but I temped for three years all over the Twin Cities in the 1980s, and
Lydia Leftcoast
Jul 2012
#8
I figured it had to do with access to and appropriate disposal of hygeine products,
RadiationTherapy
Jul 2012
#31
The next-to-last company that I worked for had management consultants come in to run a seminar.
Ikonoklast
Jul 2012
#15
Worked for a failing grocery company that was decades behing the competition
MattBaggins
Jul 2012
#38
If they would have just paired you guys up and blindfolded one out of each pair
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#43
The ownership believed that the regurgitated pablum fed back to them by upper management was
Ikonoklast
Jul 2012
#39
I've got to know, which firm was this? It sounds very familiar to me. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#50
Might be more instructive to see who has participated in any team or group activity since high scho
Mopar151
Jul 2012
#51
What I was trying to get at was more in the vein of "do people stay" or "does the company
KurtNYC
Jul 2012
#75
Another - If possible, meet with who will be co-workers or those working for you.
Ruby the Liberal
Jul 2012
#35
This is a MUST for everyone especially the unemployed. Cars in the Parking lot are KEY!!
swayne
Jul 2012
#37
6. If the interviewer cries when you ask if they get depressed in their windowless office
Matariki
Jul 2012
#66
Great post. Thanks for the insight. I've worked for a company for almost 20 years
davidwparker
Jul 2012
#73
The company I worked for had a seminar that just made everybody read "Who Moved My Cheese?"
thelordofhell
Jul 2012
#81
My company just put in a cereal bar and gave us all personal bowls and spoons.
Kablooie
Jul 2012
#87