No wonder the paper is losing a million-six a week!
Who wants to read this front-page, smoke-blowing garbage?
"With money tight, food buys favor; More businesses turning to morale-boosting grub" by Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff | June 11, 2009
A free hot dog goes a long way....
If you like puke that is.... this the same paper always lecturing us about how obese our kids are ?
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Employee morale has fallen in offices across the country as companies lay off workers, cut salaries, and slash benefits during these tough economic times. Keeping employees happy helps foster productivity and loyalty, but many businesses can't afford the big raises and lavish parties of years past. So many are taking a very basic route toward boosting morale: through their em ployees' stomachs....
Business aren't handing out free food just to be nice, of course....
Yeah, I NOTICED they NEVER DO IT for THOSE REASONS!
Always an ANGLE the company is playing!
The main thing employers are doing, according to the survey, is dangling an egg roll in front of their workers....
Isn't that what they do to JACKASSES? Put a CARROT out there?!!!
Paul Baard, a communications professor at Fordham University who researches workplace motivation. "You kind of break through that barrier when you sit down and break bread together."
TELL IT to the EFFIN' ISRAELIS!!!!!
Oh, that's right: NO BREAD in GAZA!!!!!!!
Of course, free sandwiches and cookies don't make up for the fact that people are losing their jobs and there's more work for those who remain.
Then SIT on those hands!!!
NOTHING WORSE than being a SLAVE MASTER over YOURSELF, American workers!
Jobs going offshore anyway!
Barbara Wheaton, a culinary historian who lives in Concord, said feeding employees may make them feel better for a moment, but it doesn't relieve the anxiety. "It's an aspirin for a migraine," she said. Food also doesn't always fit into the budget - but some bosses are taking matters into their own hands.
Oh, the GENEROUS BOSS angle now! Ha!
At Zink Imaging Inc., a Bedford-based company that developed an inkless digital printing platform, the meals - pizza or subs in the winter, hamburger and hot dog cookouts in the summer - are important because they give Zink's 142 employees a chance to talk about the company, said president Wendy Caswell. "It's empowering."
Pfffft! All that junk food does is empower my bowels!
Sometimes just planning a meal - even if the company doesn't pay for it - can have the desired effect.
I just puked!
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Last month at Anderson Power Products, which makes electrical connectors in Sterling, about 30 employees took part in a Cinco de Mayo potluck in the break room, sharing black bean and rice salad, scalloped potatoes, and pie at tables adorned with plastic sombreros. Talk centered on the food - not their co-workers who had been laid off a few weeks before.
I've counted about 175 jobs featured in this piece -- for an economy that has lost tens of thousands here and millions across the country. Globe sure can find that corn kernel in a log, can't they?
And let's face it: the elite crust aren't suffering for anything of this, and have in fact benefited!
Human resources manager Anita Desai started organizing these monthly social gatherings in February including a bake-off and peanuts and popcorn in honor of the Red Sox opening game....
Excuse me, readers. Fenway always makes me look for the toilet!
Even companies that are doing well during the recession are finding that food can speak volumes. Baystate Financial Services has a tradition: It orders pizza on rainy days so employees don't have to leave the building for lunch. It was barely sprinkling on a recent Wednesday, but that didn't stop managing partner David Porter from buying 25 pies from Bostone Pizza for his employees, who devoured almost every slice in about 10 minutes....
Yeah, we are just a bunch of ravenous slobs.
Even a small, sweet treat can have a big impact. About a year ago, Christina Carico, director of special projects at William A. Berry & Son, noticed that everyone in the office seemed down, so she went to Stop & Shop and brought back dessert. "It instantly changed the mood of the building," she said. "And it's just a Popsicle."
Yeah, the BOSSES LIKE the SUGAR RUSHES because you WORK, WORK, WORK!!!
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We's werkurs ain't so's dumms as youse 'tinks we iz!
