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I was called into a manager's meeting today and told by the local union president that I wasn't tough enough with my employees. My boss was stunned to say the least. The union Pres. said that I treat my employees like adults and they weren't able to handle that. WTF is that?

My youngest 'ee is 40+!


Please let me retire before I lose what's left of my mind!

Sometimes you just gotta shake your head. I once worked at a place where my supervisor told me to stop being so friggin' happy in the morning. Really, I'm not making this up!!

I'm still debating how I should act when I go back in (Saturday).

Of course, now my boss will be watching... (even though our team already leads the District in productivity!)

Yup. Sounds just like upper-management to me.
So then you get tougher on employees, employees become unhappy, productivity decreases due to loss of moral, and YOU get the blame for upsetting the flow.

BINGO! That's what I told my boss, but he has limited experience - except for his "I was the night manager at Blockbuster Video" experience.

Lucky me.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

So are you supposed to treat them with kid gloves and babysit them? Screw that.

My store is at the top of the heap in sales and yet home office cuts everyones hours but not in other parts of the country. I treat the people under me as equals as much as I can and laugh and joke with them. I am tough when I have to be.

im guessing he is younger than you? -- use the great line,,,"Ill take that under advisement" then keep on doing what your doing. if needs be you may point out your production is higher than anyone elses.

eeerr What union was this? He must have gotten in on the popular vote,,,, like most the union officials where I work.

"You can't fix stupid".- Ron White.

I wish I was an employee

Why am I not an employee I hear you ask? (or not)

I was working for a good medium sized firm which made a tidy profit when we got bought out by a bigger firm. We kept making a profit even during the darkest days of the recession, then the new bosses decided new procedures were to be implemented and promptly demoralized and alienated not only the whole workforce (3800 of us nationwide) but the clients aswell.

They went bust in November owing hundreds of million pounds stirling. And nearly took down some of the country's major supply merchants too

So Steve, my advice is to say "arseholes to the lot 'em" and try to carry on as normal. I doubt they'll listen though

Ya know I was in business for myself for most of my adult life and it is kind of nice to punch a clock and go home at the end of my shift weather there is more work to do or not and forget about the place for the evening.

I've got 12 months 'till retirement eligibility and 18 months of accrued leave on the books. Tempting.

Start being tough on the union president, and often!

They are working on breaking moral here but our new upper management loves the term...

"Well, don't feel that way."

~Brent

We just had two layoffs yesterday. I'm pretty sure they were dead weight and targets of opportunity (contract cuts with the client) but still, people are nervous again...