Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 07, 2023

He leaves his mark.

In other words, it’s the same holiday charity as last year, and the year before, and the year before that, etc.

There’s a catch in there somewhere.

American capitalism at its “finest.”

“This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Brutal truth.

The company I spent the longest at once spent a very large amount of money so we could let the work slide for a week and listen to bullsh!t from a company of “motivational consultants”.

Then they called all the drivers & carpenters in and told us they could no longer afford our $150 annual holiday bonus.

Of course, the the office workers kept their $1000 bonus, and the suits and sales geeks their multi-$1000 ones……..

That sounds about right.

They also send cards without checks to a number of our favorites charities. :) :(

Did anybody ever get motivated by a company’s motivational sessions? It has been a while since I was in industry, but back they those were all wasted time! We were much more motivated by managers who would give us clear descriptions of what was needed and then get out of the way.(Take the Lockheed Skunkworks as maybe the best ever management model!)