sf wrote:
> This just occurred to me. Many years ago, my local "small store"
> Safeway had a terrific meat department manager. He had his finger on
> the pulse of his customers and provided them with what they wanted and
> sales soared. As a reward, Safeway changed the criteria they had
> given him to earn his *yearly* bonus (a measly amount for the
> work).... and they transfered him out of the store, just to make sure
> he didn't rise to the new level.

"My" Safeway had this older guy in the seafood department. He would
point the specials out to me and never steered me wrong. He took time
with customers.

Then they remodeled the store and the outcome was bad. The seafood guy
was no longer there. More crazy aisles to navigate around but less
choice of product. Some old favorite items no longer available.
Longer waits in line. No more mailbox outside the store, no clock
showing inside the store. Little things add up to a customer like me.

And, as I walked into the store I could smell the stink of fish from
the seafood dept. which is in the very back. I still go there but only
buy frozen fish now, if at all.
>
> OTOH: my daughter told me last night that she'd not only gotten the
> promotion she wanted (still below the "official" management level at
> Google) AND she'd made 198% of her *quarterly* bonus.
>
> Which company rewards their workers for busting their butts on the
> job?

Not many that I know. At my last job in healthcare I had worked there
for only three years but was the senior department head, after dealing
with about 5 changes of administrators and management companies and
about 3 changes in ownership. With each change, benefits were
lessened. My last raise was a joke. So, I'm not in healthcare
anymore.
>
> It amazes me that companies like Safeway can sustain business
> practices like that and it confirms why many people hate their
> employers/jobs

The Safeway union was pushing for a strike some months ago and finally
backed down. I talked to some of the checkers and they weren't happy.
One checker worked in dairy was proud of her dept. but hated to be
pulled from it to check out customers and neglect her dept.
Often when I shop there stock is not replenished as quickly as it
should be.