What moronic, empty gestures has your job made for the benefit of the employees?

Today, my employer held a catered leadership conference for managers only, aiming to improve

employee morale. Essentially, the managers were all brought into the conference room, played

team-building games, and had breakfast and lunch catered for them.

This is because it was noticed that general employee morale was low, and there was a high

turnaround for the entry-level worker.

What actually happened was most employees had to skip lunch, work overtime, and take on many

extra tasks in order to make up for all the absent managers.

This made the entire staff bitter and created an us

versus them attitude in the workplace. Wait, you have managers who actually do stuff, to the point

where you have to work harder to make up for their absence? Man, must be nice. Our company created

a Facebook page and sent out an email with the link to everyone's work accounts, advertising it, and asking

everyone to like them on Facebook.

Facebook is blocked at my work, by the way.

Oh, mine is doing the same.

They want us to promote a product and even set up a game with links to Facebook and Twitter.

I guess they expect you to participate from home or something.

I just might win a free water bottle, fingers crossed.

Ugh.

My old company was having a morale problem. Me and my workers had been pulling serious

overtime trying to get all of the work done. For two weeks straight, we'd essentially come in at

7.30 a.m. and left at 6.30 p.m. without taking lunch. Finally, after we'd started openly

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