Improving Company Morale?

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Posted by Cliff on Saturday March 22, 2003 @05:13AM from the inspiring-your-peers dept.

Undaar asks: "I work as a developer for a web development company. We were pretty hard hit (as were many companies that do what we do) by the "economic down-turn". The company went from over 500 people to under 200 in under two years. It's more stable now, but people are consistently laid-off. Consequently people feel like they always have to look over their shoulder to avoid getting fired. Most lunches are spent complaining about lack of enjoyment/challenge from the job and the fact that upper-management seems not to understand what we do. Employers: what have you done to improve employee morale in your company? As an employee, what can I do to improve the morale in the people I work with? How can I make my work environment more enjoyable? What kind of constructive suggestions can I take to management so that they can help improve the situation?"

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Nah by Iguru42 · 2003-03-22 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Nope
not the first post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

My balls on your nose, sir.
STOP THE WAR by babylon93 · 2003-03-22 05:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

We must do something to stop this war.

I am ashamed of my government.

Bush and his partners are criminals, not leaders.
1. Re:STOP THE WAR by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Just read what some of your fellow protestors are saying about Iraq after spending some time there as human shields. The Iraqi people want Saddam gone as much as anyone.
2. Re:STOP THE WAR by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Go back to California you tree hugging hippie.
  
  Fuck Iraq.
3. Re:STOP THE WAR by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  It's the people fighting this war that are allowing you to post your goddamn hippie bullshit on this forum.
  
  I don't give a fuck what your opinion on this subject is, but the least you could do is shut your fucking mouth. There are people you have never met that are dying for your freedoms, brother.
  
  Maybe the least you could do is wait to complain until these boys and girls are brought home.
  
  Have a nice big cup of Shut The Fuck Up.
liquor and whores by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This will be funny only to the employees of a web development company in PA.
1. Re:liquor and whores by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I'm an employee of a web development company in PA, and I don't get it.
LAWL@DAT by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

haha
Re:Some people whine too much by jagilbertvt · 2003-03-22 05:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I actually have a job, just thought he could use a good harassing :)
Re:Alcohol by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So you had to switch to cans? Bummer. It tastes so much better out of a bottle.
I'm really glad by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 05:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm really glad that I went to a private school. Spent over $80,000 for an education and majored in computer science. To then have the bottom fall out of the industry a year later and be unemployed.

Thanks for all the good advice to my advisor.
Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 06:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fighting in IRAQ and freeing those poor people is the best way to improve morale.
1. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 06:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Except that the army doesn't do any fighting. They just drive around their tanks and hang out on their carriers. Occasionally, someone hits a button and a missile is launched. Then they all brag about how cool they are and what good fighters they would be, should they ever get in a fight.
2. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 06:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  don't forget that they sometimes crash their helicopters into each other shoot each other and then tell the people back home how the "brave soldiers died in combat"
3. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 06:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  So? Does that mean they aren't freeing the Iraq people? I don't think so. All this pro/anti war crap is meaningless from those of us on the sidelines. Lets see what the *Iraqi people* have to say about it.
4. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 06:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  The Iraqi people don't like Saddam Hussein, but they're also against the war. Nuff said.
  
  That Saddam does nothing else besides randomly torturing people is nothing but propaganda anyway.
5. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 07:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  So the Iraqi people are against the war, yet they cheer and welcome the US/UK soldiers. Yeah, that makes sense. Saddam's such a great guy, yeah, that's it.
6. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 07:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No one cheers and welcomes anyone, dickhead. Ever heard of the word "propaganda"?
  
  God, are you an idiot. Mindless tool of the government.
7. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 07:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Mindless tool
  
  Why don't you prove that you are not a mindless tool of the anti-war movement. Show proof that the "cheering Iraqis" video is fake.
8. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 07:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video
  of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the
  Reagan Administration.
  
  There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but
  what he said was stunning!
  
  He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60
  000 for a home security system?"
  
  Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
  
  The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't
  that just a little excessive?"
  
  "No, sir," continued Ollie.
  
  "No? And why not?" the senator asked.
  
  "Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
  
  "Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
  
  "By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
  
  "Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
  
  "His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
  
  At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce
  it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people
  laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of
  this man?" the senator asked.
  
  "Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie
  answered.
  
  "And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
  
  "Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be
  formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
  
  The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of
  the clip.
  
  By the way, that senator was Al Gore
  
  Also:
  
  Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis
  captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the
  Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political
  prisoners."
  
  However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The
  American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State,
  Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
  
  Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an
  airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many
  of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first
  identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports.
  
  If you agree that the American public must be made aware of this fact, pass
  this on.
9. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 08:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  The public's attention should be directed to the fact that you financed both Osama bin Laden AND Saddam Hussein.
10. Re:Join the Army! by Ex-MislTech · 2003-03-22 08:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Hey, someone has to stand for the Truth,
  and I will even go so far as to say I have
  made mistakes .
  
  I will also say they are less likely to admit
  to imperfection in their points or venue .
  
  Until they do, they will be seen as radicals .
  
  Thank you all the same !
  
  Peace...
  Ex-MislTech
  
  --
  google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
11. Re:Join the Army! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 19:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Most people agree that getting rid of Sadam is good.
  Most people agree that killing everyone in Iraq to do so is bad.
  Where do you draw the line?? How many civilians deaths would you accept. Would your answer be different if there was a possibility that you would be one of them.
  
  What many people are more concerned about is the precident that has been set by the US and allies ignoring the UN. The attack against Iraq is illegal under international law. In theory the UN should be rushing to help defend Iraq agaist an Invasion.
Re:You're a piece of shit. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 07:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's actually the thing your government is best at: Making people think they're doing something to "improve the world". And I really don't think my country would ever need the help of some gay cowboys, thank you.
No, that's not it at all... by hackwrench · 2003-03-22 07:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's just that the same people who cheered when the US/UK armies rolled in, cheered when the Iraqi armies went past too. When people see a bunch of guys with guns, they either fight back or do the best to keep them happy. So it's really hard to tell whether they are happy or not. Ask them again when they are confident that they won't be seeing more armies marching past their door.
Re:You're a piece of shit. by Ex-MislTech · 2003-03-22 08:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hehe,

I am sorry, I have been inadequate in
my ability to insult you .

I shall endeavor henceforth to dig down
to new levels of depravity, and come
up with something so base, and vile
that millions reading slashdot will
simultaneously hurl .

"Liberal?"

Hint: Insults were not my msg, you are
not my conern, what is happening in the
world by and large has very little to
do with your or my opinion .

I have had enough of this thread, I have
"something" I would much rather be doing .

We can argue this til we are both blue in
the face, it is not going to change anything .

End of Line ...

--
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
Re:You're a piece of shit. by Ex-MislTech · 2003-03-22 08:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I am not sure your refering to me,
but I am not a cream faced geek having
just returned from the base in Cuba .
Where they keep SOME of the Taliban
and Al-qaida, and having done IT support
for the base there .

I got burned real well the first several
weeks I was there and was there for a year
just having returned a few weeks ago .

I have little to fear , in fact here I am .

http://www.geocities.com/duanenavarre

As a former Guided Missile Radar Tech
for the US Navy I have lived with fear
before, bring it on .

The US and it's ppl will not cower in fear
from your threats, well maybe the liberals
will, but that is their choice .

Indeed, God Bless the US, whatever god
you follow, and whatever faith you follow.

Peace...
Ex-MislTech

--
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
Re:You're a piece of shit. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-22 08:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Nurk nurk nurk His Highness has spoken gurf gurf gurf
Re:listen up by Bowie+J.+Poag · 2003-03-22 09:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The previous comment/troll was posted by:

McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net

McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112

Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.

--
Bowie J. Poag
I was gonna suggest oral sex however by infonography · 2003-03-22 18:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I started vomiting from sudden memory of my last CEO's face.
Some images are not to be allowed in one's brain.

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Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23