What is it with companies showing off an appalling combination of power and stupidity?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...l?utm_hp_ref=business&icid=maing-grid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl2|sec1_lnk3&pLid=420482
The short of it is this - a greeter got fired for leaving his post to put out a car fire.
The company's defense is this lame excuse:
"We have well-established safety procedures for emergency situations and we train all team members on those procedures. These procedures help ensure the safety of everyone – both customers and team members, and our team members know there are consequences when they don't follow them."
Yeah, because we all know that when emergencies happen, the first thing to do is waste time going up the chain of command to get help, instead of using your own head to attack the problem immediately when a simple solution is at hand. Yes apparently the bosses at Meijer know more than the greeter about how best to handle the situation, which kind of sounds like they would have let the car burn. Yep let's shake that finger at the greeter and hold him up as an example of what happens to employees for showing such a slap in the face to the ultimate authority of Meijer's. Because of course one should worry more about getting permission to tend to an emergency than actually tending to the emergency. Just because this guy was working and firefighting is not in his job description does not mean he shouldn't have used his own God-given common sense and decency, or that it should be subject to his boss's stamp of approval first.
No company exists without names. The greeter's boss has a name, as does that person's boss. I'd like to know - who are these idiots that made such a stupid decision? And why am I hearing stories such as these about other companies who worship beaurocracy at such horrible expense?
Stupid people are punishing the kind of people who make America great.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...l?utm_hp_ref=business&icid=maing-grid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl2|sec1_lnk3&pLid=420482
The short of it is this - a greeter got fired for leaving his post to put out a car fire.
The company's defense is this lame excuse:
"We have well-established safety procedures for emergency situations and we train all team members on those procedures. These procedures help ensure the safety of everyone – both customers and team members, and our team members know there are consequences when they don't follow them."
Yeah, because we all know that when emergencies happen, the first thing to do is waste time going up the chain of command to get help, instead of using your own head to attack the problem immediately when a simple solution is at hand. Yes apparently the bosses at Meijer know more than the greeter about how best to handle the situation, which kind of sounds like they would have let the car burn. Yep let's shake that finger at the greeter and hold him up as an example of what happens to employees for showing such a slap in the face to the ultimate authority of Meijer's. Because of course one should worry more about getting permission to tend to an emergency than actually tending to the emergency. Just because this guy was working and firefighting is not in his job description does not mean he shouldn't have used his own God-given common sense and decency, or that it should be subject to his boss's stamp of approval first.
No company exists without names. The greeter's boss has a name, as does that person's boss. I'd like to know - who are these idiots that made such a stupid decision? And why am I hearing stories such as these about other companies who worship beaurocracy at such horrible expense?
Stupid people are punishing the kind of people who make America great.