Anyone else get hacked off at...

[c c]

Employees are treated like mushrooms.

Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

[rico]

I've been in cases of finding info out via a rumour, instead of he or she who was responsible coming straight to me.

F*cking annoying.

Hope you weren't affected Gaz

[mxdi]

forgot to do the quotey thing on rico

Yeah I've had that too, trivial stuff like people didnt like the sandwich fillings we used, so they were complaining for months, no-one told me, the day I found out was the day I changed them. Now we get compliments about the sandwich fillings

Oh my life is sooooooo complex

[2 Smokin Barrels]

c c said:

Employees are treated like mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

Then skinned, boiled & added to stroganof.

[haze]

I know exactly what you mean, I've had a guts full of the rubbish back chatting that goes round the office. Hearing news via everyone else but the people it should be coming from. And 9 times out of 10, I feel it should be stuff I need to be informed on. Crazy, need to work for myself, well thats the plan within the next 18 months anyway.

[Mannginger]

but then working for the BBC, you kind of get used to it!

Phil

[rico]

Gazboy said:

Dunno yet, I'll keep reading the Independent to find out....

Ouch man. That sucks. Good luck

[cotty]

Mannginger said:

but then working for the BBC, you kind of get used to it! Phil

bit like repeats then

[Mannginger]

cotty said:

bit like repeats then

I'm only leaving them once mind - they don't get another chance!

Phil

[zippee]

When I was working for Merrill Lynch we found out via the press our whole dept was being outsouced to BNYE a week before we were told officially. The same went for over a thousand redundancies the year before.
Can't think of anything better to ensure a happy, well motivated workforce!!!!

[longq]

Gazboy said:

... your company telling the media what their plans are before telling the workforce? People shouldn't learn of their own redundancies from a three day old newspaper.

Investors in people.

The Sunday People more often than not.

The growth in the role of Human Resources and the caring sharing employer theory seem to have been in parallel with the 'no need to tell the workers what is really going on' culture.

I have known several people who have been 'recruited' internally as part of their career prograssion and then found themselves out of a job with in weeks as the 'key' department was trashed. For some it was just days.

Best of luck to anyone who may be facing these issues.