Employee awards

[bergclimber34]

Place I work at the moment are obsessed with stuff like this.

I detest it, you are being awarded for doing your job! I get the reasons behind it from a management view, but it creates a lot of argument, and "favourites" ( with some merit sadly)conversation where I work, we all work hard, we all have faults and do our bit extra, these type of things really cause more trouble than they are worth, especially when the recipients receive cash or something.

And this from a firm that pays no sick pay, has a ste pension and makes you work a 40 hour week.

[Macneil]

40 hours a week? you poor thing.

[Gary C]

Macneil said:

40 hours a week? you poor thing.

Certainly

at least 3 hours a week too long...

[Sheets Tabuer]

Did someone miss out on a 4th star?

[Countdown]

“Employee of the Month” - how somebody can be a winner and a loser at the same time

[Truckosaurus]

Depends how it is run. At my current role the 'team/person of the month' usually goes to whichever team has finished a project that month, and is an easy way of highlighting what work is getting done. There's no prize other than the announcement so basically worthless.

An old project was terrible at it, and just gave out awards to the project manager who ran each successful project and never to anyone who actually did any of the work ( )

As a career long minion it always surprises me that we deliver multi-million pound contracts and there's never even any company money for a round of drinks at the end of it.

[WY86]

Having worked in sales most of my career, i have seen it a fair few times the sales person of the year who has gone above and beyond closing deal after deal in a year, Suddenly find themselves on a PIP a year later because they ruined their own pipeline.