Justice at Office

Our HR manager is a fat blob. All she does is sit on her ass all day. There's very little work going on in that two person department of hers and every single time she sends an email, five minutes later there's another email being sent to correct the first one. It's a shame really that someone like her gets a corner office and big bucks when all she is, is a waste of perfectly good space. And why am I talking about the HR manager today? Well, this morning, she went for her usual stroll and passed by our department, real lazy-like, taking her sweet time dragging all the fat around. Generally our office is one of those open floor plan type offices, where everybody kinda sits with everybody. I mean I get the appeal of it but sometimes it gets pretty noisy, especially when all the sales people are in the office and the customer service guys are getting frustrated with all the callers. The noise can really be overwhelming and for some odd reason, we're not allowed to put our headphones on to listen to music (which we're only doing to drown out the noise really), apparently it's unprofessional (why is that?)...

Anyway, back to the HR manager. She comes by this morning, bright and early and starts to talk about the employee engagement survey and the specific results for our department (the part where it says that we are all unmotivated). It wasn't an in depth conversation or anything, it was just a general what's happening type thing, and she was surprised to see that we think the company doesn't treat everyone fairly. She says that this company is one of the fairest companies out there. No, you don't say? Really? Well maybe that's because you're one of the few who actually benefit from the system. You think it's fair because you get all you want from it and you don't really see that all us little people don't get anything. If this company is fair, then how come the turnover rate is so damn high?

The whole department thought it was pretty funny actually and it just really showed how out-of-tune management is, but then again the seed of dissatisfaction has really set in and we're like breeding ground for the demotivation disease. It won't be long before we pull the rest of them with us and eventually management will feel it too. They can't hide away for too long and the HR manager will be the first, all that weight must slow her down.