Manager: Starting next month, the new policy is five days a week in the office. No exceptions.
Employee: I manage the New Zealand accounts. Most of my calls happen between 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. Working remotely helps me manage that schedule.
Manager: We need you at your desk from 8 to 5. The whole team needs to be together to improve our culture.
Employee: If I’m at my desk from 8 to 5, I won’t be available for those midnight calls.
Manager: Figure it out. We’re not bending the rules for one person.
Employee: Understood. Here is my resignation.
Manager: Great. Rules are rules!
One month later…
Manager: Why are sales in the New Zealand region down 50%?
HR: Because nobody is answering their calls.
Manager: Why not?
HR: Because it’s midnight here, and everyone is asleep.
Manager: We need someone to answer those calls.
Team Lead: We had someone. You made them sit in traffic for two hours a day just to sit in office with noise cancellation headphones.
Manager texts Employee…
Manager: The New Zealand region is a mess. We can offer you a hybrid schedule if you come back.
Employee: Sorry, it’s too late. My new company trusts me to manage my time, not my location.
You can mandate a desk. You can’t mandate engagement.
When you value policies over people, you lose your best people.
This is a textbook sac bunt to 1B.
1) Eyes & bat connected
2) Elbows pointed down
3) Bellybutton pointed in direction of bunt.
4) Back heel up
5) Going down to pitch by dropping knee to ground
@TonyGrossi Had they lost, you would have killed them for tanking. I am not sure if CLE media is miserable, but I am confident in much of the duplicity.
Dear @NFL -
Would you consider allowing for a running clock in the second half of the Browns’ game? It would allow for the season to be over quicker. Thank you.
- Signed
Disheartened Browns’ Fan
Former Players:
Home for thanksgiving?
You have no idea how much it means to us coaches when you come back to practice to say hello. Coaches will forever be connected to our players; for life.
Go see your former coaches more often!