Workers' "compensation"

Finally got off of work today after once again working overtime, only to be handed this by the HR department and told that they're "really appreciative of all the hard work I do every day." They pulled it out of a basket full of others just like it, so I imagine everyone got one. I work in a supermarket, and I'm 99% sure the candy isn't even bought, but just taken from the backroom "damaged" section where things with torn packaging and whatnot end up. Hell, they didn't even bother to sign it.

Anyone else get their jimmies rustled by this sort of thing? I don't even care about appreciation, but the idea that I'm supposed to be thankful for this kind of shit pisses me off. If my hard work was actually worth something, why not give me a day off? Or stop screwing me over with work hours? Or a pay raise, since I'm still barely over minimum wage despite being one of the most skilled employees there? Instead, nope, have this piece of candy we can't sell. Oh, and can you stay late tomorrow night, too?

It's insulting, like I've been tossed a dog treat.

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Hr people are full of shit. Always thinking of ways to satisfy workers without actually giving me more fucking money. I swear, they have got to fucked in the head

At Home Depot they have this fucked up badge system. That whole company is fucking nuts.

Jesus that is disgusting.

I don't know why people in management think that that would be anything other than a slap in the face. It's like they are laughing at their workers.

I work at your competitor, tell me more.

I think we work for the same company, m8.

Safety BBQ soon, comrade.

The Cult of Home Depot is really strong and they do everything they can to reinforce the "we're a Family here at Home Depot!" mentality.

With the badges, theoretically you get these little patches whenever your supervisor notices you doing something *~eSpEcIalLy~* good for an "associate." You know, "delivering exceptional customer service" or whatever stupid crap like that. You've got to get four of each level of award and when you get four of them you can turn them in for cash, fifty for the bronze, sixty for the silver, seventy five for the gold, and then $100 for the diamond and they give you a watch (lol). Management is really stingy with the rewards though and the amount of work you'd have to do to get anything from it is really unbalanced.

Then you have stuff like the "Homer Fund." Every couple of months your managers will pass around the hat asking for people to donate to this generalized sort of fund that they employees don't even get to decide how to use. Theoretically it's supposed to be a fund to help out employees who experience some sort of "unplanned life event" like their house burning down or suddenly getting sick, but another employee has to put in your name and it has to go through this corporate approval process and even then you get a pitiful amount of money. Home Depot doubles whatever donations they get so they cover up to two-thirds of the "fund," but it's a minuscule fraction of their profits and even if they covered the whole amount themselves it wouldn't even amount to half of one-percent of their yearly income.

You're also bombarded with propaganda before you even step into the store. There are signs everywhere with "MY" or "OUR HOME DEPOT" on it, and the corporate language really emphasizes "us/we/our" to make their employees think they're partners in some sort of enterprise. Shit like that is constantly playing over the intercoms and every month you have to take quizzes and watch videos full of these corporate assholes talking about how "we" need to "work together" in order to "fulfill our values." Store meetings are called "town halls" and in a couple days we're going to have to fill out a survey disgustingly called "the voice of the associate" where we get to tell Home Depot how much we love working at Home Depot.

Every day I wake up for work I go hoping that it's burned to the ground in the middle of the night.

That's probably the most superficial and insincere praise I've ever seen. Holy shit.

They could give you full sized snickers at least

They look at themselves, then they look at their underlings.Obviously there is a big difference, given their stations in life.
Management is incapable of empathizing, with the proles, because they have fully bought into the fallacy of meritocratic capitalism.
You are there they and they are not.
They could never be there, because they are fundamentally better, as they justify by not being there ,obviously.

In my extremely limited experience with jobs every petty management level did nothing but assert their petty authority over the people below them to justify their position to the people above them.Meanwhile the work gets done by people receiving a fraction of the wage.

Don't forget making up arbitrary rules for these petty managers to enforce to justify the existence of these petty managers in the first place.

Revolting.

What would you get for working extra hard in a socialist society? A "hero of the working class" medal?

Really makes you think.

What do you get for it in a capitalist society? Depression, drug addictions, being a demeaned wage slave and treated like sludge. Oh, and maybe if you're lucky you can acquire green pieces of paper so you can buy more shit that kills the planet.

rly m8ks u thunk

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This is proof that even capitalists need to appropriate common ownership/socialist ideals to motivate the lifeless workers laboring for scraps.

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Yes it really rustles my jimmies and thats why I´m back in college.
Yes, thanks for all your hard work, heres a snickers haha. Yeah, go to hell.

It's not even a full sized snickers.

Gee, thanks.

I bet those hr fucks are snickering at all you proles

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no need to be mad just eat a Snickers.
You're not you when you're hungry.

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HR people are the fucking worst. Their only real job is to protect porky from worker discontent by firing potentially "problematic" employees and "rewarding" "good" workers with nonsense like this.

Basically the Coles induction process in Australia.

When did HR departments become a thing in big business? I'd really like to know the history of this crap.

Not sure but if I had to guess, I'd probably say sometime around the 1950's.

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It's the same thing with Starbucks. I used to work there and right away: we're a "family".

McSocialism™

I hate all of that bullshit. It might not be as bad if they could at least be fucking honest and allow us to be honest.
For example:
It would be nice if we could just say.
Instead of having to blow smoke up the metaphysical ass of the company in order to have a chance at getting employed.
Hell, I don't want to hear about "company values". It's all bullshit. The only "value" that really matters to any company is making a profit. Just treat us with some dignity and own up to that fact instead of feeding everyone a line of horse shit.

HR is the fucking devil.

You have to schmooze with some HR interviewer cunt in order to get a job in 2016. Because fucking 15.7% of men in their early thirties don't have a job. And 21.2% don't have a full-time job.

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How many stores have a Homer fund ?

It's a company wide thing I think. The same with "success sharing."