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Best Mission Statement Contest Winner:
[Company Name] is committed to establishing a heritage of integrity in the marketplace. We will
accomplish this by building upon the talents and skills of each company representative to
effectively support the diverse needs of our customers. We must also represent our broad
range of business products with the utmost of professionalism and offer our customers
unsurpassed service, holding true to the company motto, "We Mean Business".
[ed: Indeed!]
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Reward System Bullshit:
[ed: This is an instant classic.]
The following email was sent to the staff after announcing a third round of layoffs and
paycuts for remaining staff:
In these challenging times our "We Achieve" program is a great cultural support. Please
recognize people who are role models for our values that are so important:
Motivation
Innovation
Initiation
Communications
Collaboration
For those who are new, please find the cards that represent each value at the reception
desk. Bi-monthly we recognize the 3 people who received the most cards with rewards.
[ed: Yes you heard it correctly, they are actually filling out cards of people who demonstrate the above traits and recognizing them for 'mission statement' compliance. I wonder what the recognition gift is? Hopefully, it's a fruit basket.]
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Manager's Corner aka. Piled Higher and Deeper Volunteers: Assignments with impossible deadlines or pointless pet-projects work best when asking for volunteers. Offer nebulous rewards with as few specifics as possible like "an appropriate amount of comp-time", or "the thanks of upper management", or the ultimate, vague non-reward, "a chance to work on elite company-critical research projects in the future". If no one volunteers, assign it to the team-member least qualified to handle the project, or failing that, the least paid. After struggling alone, the novice employee will eventually have to ask for help from your more senior team members. Such a debacle will assure that your most qualified employees will voluteer in the future for such projects, knowing that inevitablly it will be fall on their shoulders anyway.
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