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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1165713" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>This is an indicator that morale has completely broken down, management is held in contempt and basically have NO CONTROL over what is going on. Put another way, the operation is running without any direct influence from management - chaos in motion. </p><p></p><p>In a military environment, a situation like this would result in the commander being IMMEDIATELY relieved of command and the unit declared to be operationally unfit until new leadership is brought in and the unit is 'rehabilitated'. </p><p></p><p>It is good to know that at least the ops managers realize they no longer have any real control over what is going on. From their perspective, it is a case of the 'inmates running the asylum' with their not being able to do anything about it. From a HR point of view, the organizational cohesiveness has completely failed, and either a change in business operating procedure is needed (not going to happen), a change in management is needed (may indeed happen - at least at the station level) or a good round of "Roman discipline" is needed (the Romans 'decimated' a unit if it performed very poorly, one man in 10 was put to death to help motivate the rest to do better next time). I think everyone agrees that Express is already engaging in a form of Roman discipline. </p><p></p><p>This is actually one of the steps needed on the road to successful labor organizing - a company's labor holding their management in complete contempt and not afraid to demonstrate that fact. Whether or not this situation is occurring on a national scale is to be seen. </p><p></p><p>It would be interesting for the poster to ask their coworkers what their sentiment towards organizing is now. Are they willing to laugh at management but NOT willing to sign a rep card? Are they willing to sign a rep card but only without their coworkers knowing about it? </p><p></p><p>The wage employees have held 'Memphis' in contempt for a while now. It looks like that contempt is falling on local level management finally. I do remember writing a few months ago that when it comes to wage employee discontent, that Memphis was no longer going to let the local management play 'good cop' while placing all the blame on Memphis; local management was going to have to step up and actively promote and defend policies established in Memphis and not attempt to distance themselves from those policies. </p><p></p><p>I also wrote not too long ago that Memphis totally wrote off this year's SFA (have you heard any BS regarding the SFA taken just over 2 months ago???). Memphis knows what is going on, they aren't blind. </p><p></p><p>Don't be too surprised if 'decimation' is used to help motivate the remainder to 'get with the program', or face the consequences. It is only going to get worse...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1165713, member: 22880"] This is an indicator that morale has completely broken down, management is held in contempt and basically have NO CONTROL over what is going on. Put another way, the operation is running without any direct influence from management - chaos in motion. In a military environment, a situation like this would result in the commander being IMMEDIATELY relieved of command and the unit declared to be operationally unfit until new leadership is brought in and the unit is 'rehabilitated'. It is good to know that at least the ops managers realize they no longer have any real control over what is going on. From their perspective, it is a case of the 'inmates running the asylum' with their not being able to do anything about it. From a HR point of view, the organizational cohesiveness has completely failed, and either a change in business operating procedure is needed (not going to happen), a change in management is needed (may indeed happen - at least at the station level) or a good round of "Roman discipline" is needed (the Romans 'decimated' a unit if it performed very poorly, one man in 10 was put to death to help motivate the rest to do better next time). I think everyone agrees that Express is already engaging in a form of Roman discipline. This is actually one of the steps needed on the road to successful labor organizing - a company's labor holding their management in complete contempt and not afraid to demonstrate that fact. Whether or not this situation is occurring on a national scale is to be seen. It would be interesting for the poster to ask their coworkers what their sentiment towards organizing is now. Are they willing to laugh at management but NOT willing to sign a rep card? Are they willing to sign a rep card but only without their coworkers knowing about it? The wage employees have held 'Memphis' in contempt for a while now. It looks like that contempt is falling on local level management finally. I do remember writing a few months ago that when it comes to wage employee discontent, that Memphis was no longer going to let the local management play 'good cop' while placing all the blame on Memphis; local management was going to have to step up and actively promote and defend policies established in Memphis and not attempt to distance themselves from those policies. I also wrote not too long ago that Memphis totally wrote off this year's SFA (have you heard any BS regarding the SFA taken just over 2 months ago???). Memphis knows what is going on, they aren't blind. Don't be too surprised if 'decimation' is used to help motivate the remainder to 'get with the program', or face the consequences. It is only going to get worse... [/QUOTE]
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