Does Hell Have Suggestion Boxes?
Hurray! I walked into work this morning and discovered a suggestion box had been put up. This will be the third one in the 17 years that I’ve been with RPC.
The first one was holdover when RPC bought the DCC plant and kept everything intact. A couple of months later, I began working for RPC. Shortly after that, the suggestion box was taken down. I had nothing to do with that, I swear! No, someone suggested that the company offer monetary incentives for cost savings ideas. One of the VPs showed his support of the idea by saying, “I don’t care if we save $1 million! We’re not giving any fruiting money to any fruiting employee for any of their fruiting ideas.” Of course, “fruiting” was not the word he used. Something more along the lines of an action that would also result in the planting of seeds.
A second suggestion box was put up a few years later and resulted in several money saving ideas for the company (and no rewards for the innovative employees). And then someone jokingly said to one of the VPs about replacing the Cadillacs that the executive staff got for company cars with Geo Metro’s. The suggestion box was gone the next day.
But today is a new day. Today, we have new owners, new vice presidents in charge of things, our evil HR (referred to as Catbert) has been replaced with an actual degreed HR executive, and we have a locked suggestion box. Perhaps tomorrow, I should suggest pay raises for all of us worker bees since we haven’t had one in several years now. The only problem is that, by tomorrow, they might get tired of reading the same ‘pay workers more’. I’m assuming that someone does have a key to this suggestion box …
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