Comments on: Dear Mr. CEO

By: Gail

Gail — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:55:11 +0000

I once worked for a company that owned 2 health care facilities only a couple of blocks from each other. I worked in the one for awhile and there were never any perks. I got transferred to the other and found they got donuts one day a week! That made my morale go down thinking that employees of one branch were being treated better than another. But it equaled out as soon even the years long tradition of donuts was displaced and so both places had no perks.

I wonder just how much a bunch of boxes of donuts cost compared to the CEO’s salary. I bet he was getting raises during the years we not only got no raises but had the donuts taken away.

I always wondered about the ‘free’ coffee issue also. I don’t drink coffee, so was alway offended when the coffee drinkers tried to insist that I had to donate to the coffee fund. Their excuse was everybody donates. Which of course reminds me of the mother’s reasoning if everybody jumps off the cliff do you need to?

By: DIANA PERRY

DIANA PERRY — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:54:51 +0000

very cute, and has some very practical advice.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:41:44 +0000

I don’t think that companies realize how demotivating it can be when they take away perks and don’t do anything to try and replace them. Even when you know that things are tight for the company, as you have suggested, there are things they can do that don’t cost a lot that can keep moral up. When employees aren’t motivated, you aren’t going to get quality work out of them.