Yelp for coworkers would be hilarious...or grind productivity to a halt
This would be very bad. Imagine if every employer could just go online and publicly badmouth every employee that ever quits or gets fired. It would be very heavily abused.
Employers would ban it immediately anyway because it could also be a tool for employees to evaluate each other's performance and be used for pay negotiations.
Yeah in Season 3 Episode 1 everyone can rate everyone else and it has some really unsettling consequences on people's behavior.
Like Yelp? So, for a fee, Gary can have that review removed, in order to maintain his 5-star rating.
This would be extremely chaotic and probably ruin social relations, but would be really funny until workplaces collapsed.
Nah, it would just hurt their feelings and make them defensive. The only way for them to improve is to have a private heart to heart discussion about the ways they're being irritating, and if they genuinely listen and want to improve. If they're obstinate and think they're doing nothing wrong, unfortunately there's no practical way to change their mind.
Yep. I wasn't aware that I had a habit of just ending a conversation with co-workers and walking away (and honestly believing and remembering it had finished) when it was getting into difficult or emotional territory.
Several years later I found out I had undiagnosed autism, but at the time, was confronting but extremely helpful when the supervisor scheduled a meeting with me and a co-worker to make me aware of that behaviour, and especially that this particular co-worker considered it extremely rude and disrespectful towards her. It had never occurred to me that walking away might be taken that way, but also more importantly, that those conversations weren't actually finished.
The co-worker felt much better after learning that it wasn't disrespect towards her, but me apparently not being able to deal with difficult or emotional conversations, and my brain appearing to completely excise those memories of the end of those conversations at the same time as removing me from the situation.
If I'd found out about it by social media, or overhearing others calling me a misogynist (probably because it was the female coworkers that tended towards emotional or confronting conversation) or weird, I can imagine getting instantly defensive and me not believing them, or thinking that they were over exaggerating, misinterpreting etc. Basically, that the problem was them, not me.
It would have been an impossible leap, while feeling attacked "socially" and indirectly, for me to realise on my own, and then admit, that my brain was doing something weird and unusual, and that I couldn't trust it's recall in those situations.
Absolutely, thank you for sharing your story, it shows a really good example of conflict resolution.
We have something like this at work. It's called Bonusly. Everyone gets a certain amount of points each month, to gift to others. Accrued points can be redeemed for gift cards, travel vouchers etc. Ofcourse it's nothing but a popularity contest with absolutely zero to do with actual merit.
I feel like this puts the ‘service’ teams in a company at an advantage. Everyone notices when IT helps them with their problem – as is their job. But no-one will notice if the marketing team upped the sales by 20%. No-one notices the 50 emails HR had to send to their off-site payroll administrator to make sure employees would get paid this month.
Quite the reverse, in my opinion. Marketing is full with extroverts who love this type of thing, and that 20% sale increase is the only thing management will ever talk about (they get extra points to give away). While the quiet introverted programmer who keeps the company running at all gets nothing.
Management will talk about the sales increase. The average John doesn’t give a shit, at least in my experience.