I’ve had one job where the co-owners said this, and actually meant it. The company was run like a startup as far as employee benefits went, despite them being in business since the 80s.
The whole company was remote (except for the executive assistant who they kept office space for because she didn’t want to work from home).
We were salaried exempt, but they wouldn’t let us work overtime, we could take off for appointments and such with no questions asked, and you could take vacation without using vacation days if you just showed up for meetings.
We had quarterly meetups where they fed us catered meals with an open bar at high end hotels, and even once took us to a MLB game in an executive suite.
And the best part is that basically everyone who wasn’t in IT had decades of experience in HR, including the owners, so they knew that investing heavily in making us happy would be in the best interest of the company.
I still hate Musk for fucking up their contract to the point where they had to shut down, even though we increased government efficiency in our specialty by 900%.
In 2016 I was hired onto a team at a national insurance company. We did Problem Management and Major Incident Management. When I was brought aboard there were five people on the team.
Problem Management, by its nature is not all that high stress. It can get sticky especially if you’re working a Problem that has the C-Suite’s attention, but most of the time you’re working with techs that just want to get things fixed.
Major Incident on the other hand is a baptism in fire. That brought that team together and we all got to the point that we watched each other’s backs and stepped in automatically when needed without having to be asked.
6 years after leaving that job, it was a contract position, I’m still in contact with almost all of the team.
There are rare work environments where you gel so well with your little group a familial friendship forms that lasts beyond that job.
But it’s never invoked by management stating nonsense like this.
I’ve had one job where the co-owners said this, and actually meant it. The company was run like a startup as far as employee benefits went, despite them being in business since the 80s.
The whole company was remote (except for the executive assistant who they kept office space for because she didn’t want to work from home).
We were salaried exempt, but they wouldn’t let us work overtime, we could take off for appointments and such with no questions asked, and you could take vacation without using vacation days if you just showed up for meetings.
We had quarterly meetups where they fed us catered meals with an open bar at high end hotels, and even once took us to a MLB game in an executive suite.
And the best part is that basically everyone who wasn’t in IT had decades of experience in HR, including the owners, so they knew that investing heavily in making us happy would be in the best interest of the company.
I still hate Musk for fucking up their contract to the point where they had to shut down, even though we increased government efficiency in our specialty by 900%.
In 2016 I was hired onto a team at a national insurance company. We did Problem Management and Major Incident Management. When I was brought aboard there were five people on the team.
Problem Management, by its nature is not all that high stress. It can get sticky especially if you’re working a Problem that has the C-Suite’s attention, but most of the time you’re working with techs that just want to get things fixed.
Major Incident on the other hand is a baptism in fire. That brought that team together and we all got to the point that we watched each other’s backs and stepped in automatically when needed without having to be asked.
6 years after leaving that job, it was a contract position, I’m still in contact with almost all of the team.
I work in a job like that, me me .
The company I work at is a flat structure so I don’t have a line manager per day, I have a team that points and makes jokes about me not working hard.
Me and some of my team join a Google meet for evening of home labing