Keep your eyes open and report any non-acceptable behavior and attire.
Any company that encourages, supports and designs a workplace culture of snitching will not work.
A company I work with, now monitors its vehicles with GPS devices (vehicle behavior is watched) and there is even talk of installing cameras so they can watch everything you do in the vehicle on demand.
It is obviously clear all this technology is not enough for this company.
They are now paying people within the company to snitch on their peers. They are calling them "Team Captains", but make no bones about it ... they are snitches. They are ready and willing (for a little money of course) to rat their fellow employees out if they do not adhere to an artificially imposed company standard.
They use the term, "Team" in discussing this structure ... but in reality this has nothing to do with teamwork and everything to do with control, power and suppression.
Trust is extremely important within any business operation. The implementation of this kind of snitching policy will ultimately lead to a lower employee morale, teamwork and certainly a cessation of trust. It becomes too risky to be friendly with anyone in the organization if the possibility exists that they will at some point stab you in the back. Snitching leads to a dysfunctional work place and of course will increase employee turnover.
The official snitching program is as management would say the "employee's fault." It is the company's perception that the business is dying because of the lack of proper adherence to company standards, thus if they can correct it, then ALL will be OK once again. Management looks at the program as a punishment of sorts. I think that kind of explanation says it all.
I am here to tell you that the folks who do the work and are the foundation of the company will simply leave because they are being disrespected by the imposition of snitches in the workplace.
Snitching every time there is a smudge on your polished shoes is simply bad business.
Any company that encourages, supports and designs a workplace culture of snitching will not work.
A company I work with, now monitors its vehicles with GPS devices (vehicle behavior is watched) and there is even talk of installing cameras so they can watch everything you do in the vehicle on demand.
It is obviously clear all this technology is not enough for this company.
They are now paying people within the company to snitch on their peers. They are calling them "Team Captains", but make no bones about it ... they are snitches. They are ready and willing (for a little money of course) to rat their fellow employees out if they do not adhere to an artificially imposed company standard.
They use the term, "Team" in discussing this structure ... but in reality this has nothing to do with teamwork and everything to do with control, power and suppression.
Trust is extremely important within any business operation. The implementation of this kind of snitching policy will ultimately lead to a lower employee morale, teamwork and certainly a cessation of trust. It becomes too risky to be friendly with anyone in the organization if the possibility exists that they will at some point stab you in the back. Snitching leads to a dysfunctional work place and of course will increase employee turnover.
The official snitching program is as management would say the "employee's fault." It is the company's perception that the business is dying because of the lack of proper adherence to company standards, thus if they can correct it, then ALL will be OK once again. Management looks at the program as a punishment of sorts. I think that kind of explanation says it all.
I am here to tell you that the folks who do the work and are the foundation of the company will simply leave because they are being disrespected by the imposition of snitches in the workplace.
Snitching every time there is a smudge on your polished shoes is simply bad business.
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