Gosh today's been full of energy. Unlike Thursday or the rest of the week. A new attitude is floating around the office when earlier this week we were experiencing some serious low morale issues. It got to the point that I felt something needed to be done about it. I talked to the CEO and he was totally receptive to what I was seeing but didn't have any ideas. So Thursday I went looking up Office Morale Boosters and found a ton of stuff! I talked to people around the office and decided to bring up the ideas to him, but of course he left the office early that day.
So first thing this morning I went to him and told him my ideas and his face lit up when I mentioned the first one: paintball match with east side vs. west side. We have two offices... One is for production and the other for the rest of the company. It's been a long standing joke that we're east side / west side. So there's like 1/3 of the employees over in production but they all have either played paintball (some semi-professionally), or have experience with guns or both! So we figure they have the advantage over us east siders. ;) Actually what am I saying... They are gonna slaughter us! But it should still be fun in the meantime.
The second I was going to suggest but he suggested it first. LAN gaming. Getting a bunch of computers together and playing
and ordering pizza and hanging out. He told me to talk to Sam about what it would take. And when I told him Sam told me that our computers aren't equiped enough to handle the games he suggested getting 20 computers together for gaming all the time! I was shocked!
The third was the co-worker appreciation thing. I'm not sure what it's called. You have people recommend their co-workers for a job well done on any particular given moment and whoever gets the most in the end of the month gets a gift certificate and there will be honorable mentions so that way it's acknowledged by the CEO and the rest of the company. While this is cool to help the people see that they are in fact appreciated for what they do, it will also help the managers see the work that is being done when they aren't looking. And the CEO liked that idea too. *I don't know why I have a hard time saying his (the CEO's) name. Like it's an invasion of his privacy or something. I say other peoples names all the time.*
And also he (*the CEO*) ;) was mentioning at our first meeting that he didn't really know what everyone's job entailed. I suggested that he tag along with a person in each department to get a feel for what they go through in a day. Or better yet, as he put it, DO their job for a day! How awesome is that!?!
Well I've gotta run... I gotta get to the bank and then Sam and I are hangin out tonight to watch Pitch Black so we can go see the Chronicles of Riddik. hehe
Have a great weekend! I know I will! I'm outa here!
In CD player: Nothing
Mood: TGIF for sure!
Link of the day: Where I'm hoping we can play paintball
posted by Charity at 6/18/2004 04:17:00 PM 
