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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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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LOL. I have seen suggestion boxes come and go.
I think your administration understand the demand. That’s why they take the steps. Thanks for your post.
Is this Suggestion box exactly like that which is setup at your office?
Thanks for your information.
Hi Psi Guy. Hopefully you’ve had better experiences with them than I have.
Hi Rennrad. Everyone here is hoping that this is a sign of better things to come.
Hi Kredite. LOL! No, the one in the picture was what we expected the last owners to install…
Ahh, the suggestion box… We had one for 2 years, our boss said they were carefully read and processed … well after the said 2 years a friend of mine accidentally tripped and fell on the box. Enough to said it was almost full with suggestions dating back up to 2 years … The expression on the bosses face – priceless
Funny, some 10 years ago suggestion/complaint boxes (or books) were easily found in each store and I suppose in each office as well, then they disappeared… it seems like store owners are no more interested in what their personnel/buyers would wish to change… they do prefer to save a little now (not paying worker for the worthy suggestion) than to save a lot more later due to using some good suggestion…
I saw one go up in an office of 18 people one time. That didn’t leave much room for dispersal of complaints. Needless to say, the box didn’t last long and the manager forever had a chip on his shoulder!