Employee of the week when did that start?
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The entire nine months employed at FT, I cannot recall Chuck ever having an employee of the week award. Sure there are awards given but usually this is done around contract time, you can figure that much out by just doing a Google search and looking at the time frame of these photos and awards. Here is a conversation for you FTers to have at work on Monday, ask each coworker from one of the other offices who won the employee of the week award, it's a bet that you will never find out.
What has really left me pondering over lately, why does it appear that only one employee with a disability receives some type of award every year but none of the other ones. Could it be that Chuck is actually picking and choosing employees by their disability and how comfortable he feels by that individual’s disability? There are a few other employees with disabilities that have been at FT, a couple since the beginning of FT but never do you see them on the front of these fliers. An example of one such male employee, Ralph, who has been an employee of FT for quite a few years now. Ralph works just as hard as any other employee at FT, yet his award is to get the privilege to get a picture taken with Chuck while he takes the time out of his busy schedule to talk with Ralph, all for publicity reasons.
Those employees that do win the various awards offered by Chuck at FT, they are usually white males with no known disabilities that I can recall. When was the last time a minority or woman won the employee of the week award, are there any pictures of Chuck handing such an award to anybody other than a healthy white male? Could it be possible that most of the minorities and female employees at FT just are not good enough, production or personality wise, to win an award or were they written up, causing them to be ineligible to win an award?
What is disgusting, the fact that one state agency that Chuck has a contract through, NYSID, supports FT. I wonder when the last time NYSID threw a five-thousand dollar dinner holiday party, gave out raffle tickets for an iPad their employees, which by the way, the only employee at FT that ever seems to be the winner of these raffles with FT are the ones that are not costing Chuck precious company dollars. What better way to make these raffles seem fair is by Chuck allowing his wife or business partner hold the bowl while Chuck chooses the raffle ticket out of the bowl. Let’s not forget nobody gets to see or hear the name he puts back because that employee "supposedly" already was picked that night, or was it one that Chuck did not want to win?
How many companies with one hundred employees do you know of that can actually afford to give out four-hundred fifty dollar bonuses around the holidays? Where does Chuck get all the company money from to be able to afford monthly employee outings, trips to a play and the Great Escape every year to name a few. The Great Escape trip is an all expense paid for you and three guests, two Grey Hound buses that bring the employees there and back. Shoot, when my mother and I worked for the state they didn't even do things like that, Tax and Finance has you pay a fee for the tickets to the Great Escape and you have to provide your own transportation. The food at the Christmas party held at the Ramada Inn had to at least cost more than five-thousand dollars, and that would not be counting the other five-thousand in raffle prizes.
Could it be that the reason Chuck gets all of these gifts for the employees that he thinks deserves them is because Chuck is all about screwing the ones who are costing him money. Unsavory professional behavior on behalf of Chuck, such as, creating fake production reports and bogus write ups after an employee is employed at FT for six months. Personal experience from working there, not receiving a raise and being told that it was because of my production dropping when I knew it did not drop. He gave me false production reports so that it would be impossible not receive a raise. Just this alone should be proof enough that Chuck is doing something illegal to be able to afford things that are not important at all. Once employed long enough with FT so that you are eligible opt into the health insurance and as soon as they do start relieving health insurance that employee's production suddenly drops or their professional behavior is suddenly not that good. Oh how wonderful Chuck looks giving employees expensive gifts and entertaining them every months with wonderful trips all at the expensive of the hard working employee that had the audacity to cost him money. How dare that employee dip into the Chuck is wonderful fund?
Did anyone not explain to that selfish employee who had the nerve to cut into FT funds by opting into the health insurance that giving out a $900, Sixty inch television, for Christmas is much more important than having health insurance to care for the well being of his/her family and themselves?
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Having retired from business some years ago when Employee of the Week was just beginning I must say I never saw the benefit to the employee. It just made the employer look good to have such a scheme.
ReplyDeleteNot many companies do employee of the week, not even state agencies. Of all the jobs I held never had I seen an employee of the week except at places like Walmart and McDonalds.
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ReplyDeleteJust to let people who are employed at FT, what is said is not a personal attack against employees but has more to do with how you wee, ae and will be treated. Being a had working employee does not give you employer the right to mistreat you for financial gain and thee are labor laws in place. If a company can afford things like that, than okay but if a company has to make people look bad because that company needs to look good for their contractors than thee is something to consider there
ReplyDeleteDo you really want to wok for a corporation that is supposed to be for the people it employees but isn't at all? Even the State Agencies that FT has the contracts though do not even have the means, financially, to supply their employees with this kind of Christmas party. Although, they do have the means to give every employee, health insurance, 401K plans and retirement intensives. I don't know about any of you but personally I would rather know if my doctor told me I had breast cancer, that somehow thee would be coverage for me to receive treatment.
My Brother has a cyctic mass on his bain and has no health insurance coverage though his employer. My bother makes to much money and because he makes to much he cannot receive medicaid. He will have to quit his job in order to be able to receive coverage for the treatment.
The last sentence was reworded, after reading what was written previously over again, it occurred to me that it did not sound how I really meant it to sound. I was trying to be sarcastic and say that Dick was treating employees who opted into the health insurance as being the selfish ones.
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