I’m stumped
12 08 2009I just got a puzzling text message from my manager informing me that we’re having a pizza party on Saturday, and that we should try to get another one next week.
I don’t know if it’s a reward for something we did, or if we simply had a pizza budget that we needed to go through. Aside from a random act of awesome pizza-ness (a real word, I assure you), I’m not sure what to attribute this to.
Random acts of kindness make the world a better place. I won’t argue that. But targeted acts of kindness can make the workplace a better place. If I can see that a pizza party is the effect of a certain cause, my goals will shift to meet that cause. So if the cause is a sales goal, or customer service surveys, or punctuality, or anything in my control, I’ll set myself to it. But if I’m kept guessing as to why I’m enjoying the pizza, I won’t know exactly how to respond.
TJ - Does your manager know that he/she is the regular topic of your posts on doing it all wrong? Just curious. Joni
Joni:
One of the things I’ve tried to do as I go through this blog is to write vaguely enough about people that even someone who knows me and reads the blog would have a hard time pin-pointing the specific individuals to whom I refer. There are something like eight or nine different managers at the retail store I work at, so when I say “my boss,” it refers to any of a number of people - none of whom are chronic offenders in terms of generating blog posts.
That said, no, I typically don’t mention to folks when I blog about them, but if something has got me really irritated, I will bring up the issue with the person in question so that we can resolve it.
ever find out what the pizza was for?
No, but that didn’t stop me from eating some.