It's a Pizza Party

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Celemo, May 20, 2022.

  1. Baseballman86

    Baseballman86 Well-Known Member
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    And who wants to be the person to complain about charitable giving or charity work
     
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  2. Celemo

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  3. $P1

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    Overnight circus party
     
  4. Constant

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  5. Celemo

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    Graveyard shift likes cotton candy too...but yeah it's a 24 hour event for all three shifts
     
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  6. Constant

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    This adds up to some fun carnival attractions!
     
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  7. hudson

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    I’m a nurse. I work for a large hospital chain 8 hours a week. Used to work there full time but they’re just one giant piece of shit. The other hospital I work for is a small private set up. 2 weeks ago was nurses week. I didn’t get anything from either hospital.

    the big chain has had problems with keeping staff because they work us short basically every night, and all they care about is patient satisfaction scores, while continuing to cut down on money they spend. So during the past two years they’ll have mandatory pick up shifts for everyone. So with the 8 hours once a week in a six week period I work 48 hours, which is 12 hours over my 36 hour six week minimum requirement. It takes care of the extra shift, my last three bosses said that was ok(Yepp I’ve now had 4 different bosses in 2 years). The newest one texted me telling me I had pick up an actual 12 hour shift for it to count because the new managers decided they would be the fairest thing. Meaning I’m doing 16 hours instead of 12 like everyone else. This kind of short sidedness is why they are hemorrhaging staff.
     
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  8. TLAU

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    Cracker Barrel breakfast is fire the grandpa’s country fried breakfast is a Sunday hangover delicacy. I miss living 2 miles from one. Don’t think I’ve eaten a non-breakfast meal there since I was a kid though
     
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  9. Carl Brutananadilewski

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    Any meal at Cracker Barrel that isn’t breakfast is doing it wrong
     
  10. War Grundle

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    Their breakfast is fine.
     
  11. Gambler

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    Grandpa's breakfast is the one.
     
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  12. blind dog

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    I like their breakfast where the egg is in the middle of their toast. Try to avoid it though I like local places better

    And I never got shit from my old job, was only employee and worked there for over 17 years. When I recently quit my boss was actually emotional about it, I assumed he didn't give a shit (I didn't). On my last day he gave me a present in the shape of a watch. He's a Rolex guy so got a little excited for a second bc I would immediately resell it. But it was a gold money clip lol. I don't carry much cash and I can't sell it bc my initials are on it. Dude paid like $500 for it too

    If anyone has same initials it's yours for $100 obo
     
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  13. AptosDuck

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    We gave everybody a 10% raise Jan.1, in addition to generous year-end bonuses. Nobody gives a fuck about parties or awards
     
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  14. Lyrtch

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    the hash brown thing at cracker barrel is good
     
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  15. Eathan Edwards

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    I agree with the overall sentiment of this - but have to admit we got a ton of pushback from staff on eliminating the Christmas party and company outings.

    But obviously hospitality industry I'm sure is dramatically different than almost any other on that front.
     
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  16. AptosDuck

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    You already spend enough time together IMO
     
  17. Eathan Edwards

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    Yea but they're not allowed to drink at work. Massive difference.
     
  18. AptosDuck

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    I'd rather drink with people I want to be around than with people I have to be around
     
  19. VaxRule

    VaxRule Mmm ... Coconuts
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    These are single people that are just going to fuck each other at these parties/outings.
     
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  20. Eathan Edwards

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    Honestly a huge bonus structure right now for employees is referring new employees.

    Obviously it's extremely difficult to hire right now - we have bussers/servers/cooks/etc that have referred like 5 new employees and received an extra $2,500 for bringing solid employees to the business.
     
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  21. Eathan Edwards

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    AptosDuck being very anti team-building here. smh

    obviously I'm joking
     
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  22. AptosDuck

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    ... because it's always a great idea to shit where you eat
     
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  23. VaxRule

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    Great idea or not, that shit happens a lot.
     
  24. Eathan Edwards

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    Hence why we stopped them after the first year - but why employees gave heavy pushback
     
  25. Gambler

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    I worked at Burlington, a rug mill, that would give you $5 if you went the whole year without missing a day. $5. This was in the 90s.
     
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  26. bertwing

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    I will take it off your hands for $10 since I actually have cash and you don’t you poor
     
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  27. kinghill

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  28. Marbles

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    Me and my wife actually met hooking up when we worked night shift in an ER 14 years ago. Everyone was screwing someone at work during that time. Fun times.
     
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  29. lfriend

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    Any openings? :gfa:
     
  30. Redav

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    We got an employee survey recently. The CEO announced it and followed up by listing all the good things administration had done the past year. Very odd. Do you want honest answers to this to improve the company? Why are you trying to put your finger on the scale as these surveys go out? I know the answer but your'e not supposed to make it obvious.
     
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  31. steamengine

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    Not that it makes it better but this is pretty much the entire healthcare field at the moment.
     
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  32. Goose

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    My company handed out 2-5% raises whilst announcing $4b in stock buybacks.

    Despite the $4b buyback our stock is in the shitter this year

    We have about 100,000 employees according to google so they could have literally given everyone about $40k and they probably wouldn’t be dealing with mass turnover and probably would’ve improved the stock price organically by having happy employees
     
  33. Bert Handsome

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    At least they are buying back the stock when it's in the shitter and not when it's at all time highs like a lot of companies do.
     
  34. OZ2

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  35. Celemo

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    this isn't hard

    pay competitive wages
    staff appropriately
    don't micro-manage
    acknowledge above and beyond work
    provide ping pong tables
     
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  36. DuffandMuff

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    I worked at two different companies that had ping pong tables. Both companies made you feel guilty for playing during work hours.

    I’m absolutely not about to hang around after work to play ping pong with coworkers.
     
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  37. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    It's so incredibly mind numbing how it's just perfectly legal for companies to continually buy back their stock instead of just helping out their employees then being shocked when they experience turnover.
     
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  38. Bruce Bowen

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    The ping pong tables are there for when you are working after hours cmon
     
  39. fattus

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    Before VPN when I would have to go in after hours a ping pong table would have been nice to sleep on.
     
  40. Constant

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    Now that my office is at home I have a ping-pong table in my office.

    I have nobody to play ping pong with. Would someone like to come over and play ping pong?
     
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  41. Clown Baby

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    My desk is actually a ping pong table
     
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  42. Redav

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    I have a stand up ping pong desk
     
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  43. TC

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    My office is a ping pong table.

    We bounce you around til you hopefully don't care anymore or forgot what you wanted and go away.
     
  44. Bruce Bowen

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  45. 42yard

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    Worked for an oil and gas tech place that had a massage chair and ping pong tables. A few months in we had an all hands on deck staff meeting where the bosses asked for our feedback. Multiple people brought up the shit pay and they straight up told us we wouldn’t get any pay increases because 1. They were content for us to use them as a launching pad into bigger/better/high paying jobs and 2. They priced in the “quality of life” of living somewhere as “vibrant and fun” as Austin :yaoface:

    Needless to say I got my ass out within a couple of months to go to a better paying job in an industry that wasn’t actively killing the earth
     
  46. Clown Baby

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  47. Jc6

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    I would take pizza and carnivals over stupid ass challenge coins.
     
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  48. Celemo

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    what is a challenge coin?
     
  49. Jc6

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    Literal coins with no monetary value. ​
     
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  50. Clown Baby

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    I actually throw a pizza party for my bosses #grindset
     
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