So now the supervisors wear idiotic little vests in the callcenter....

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

It must have gone like this:

"We've got some money left over in the budget and morale is poor. We can't understand why, as we've tried to make this one of the most uncaring cube-farms in the area next to Stream (the local McDonald's of tech support). What can we do to improve this?"
"Bonuses to the best of the best?"
*general sound of laughter*
"A way to better identify the supervisors that, while useless to anyone who's worked more than a week, is also detracting from their image as approachable, respectable people who are above the bullshit they're made to inflict upon the techs?"
"Good idea! But how?"
"I know! Let's make them wear blue construction-worker vests with their name on the breast and their contract on the back!"
"Jolly good! That'll buck up those agents!"
"Uh, won't that also have the affect of letting the agents identify targets from a distance and through the haze of red when they finally snap and come to work with a sawed off pump action 12-guage?"
"Tut tut, my good man. We have no less than THREE signs admonishing the little miscreants not to bring firearms into the building, and a crack team of underpaid, nowhere-near-their-prime, unarmed, uncaring, slothful security guards! We'll be fine!"
"Cool! Let's give ourselves bonuses with the savings!"
"Capital idea! The souls of our employees do so very nicely cushion my hemorrhoids, I could do with more!"

Comments

[solradia.livejournal.com]

*does the "I escaped Stream" dance*

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

They want me to take a paid vacation.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

And I thought the reason they came up with little flags for the cubicles that denoted where a supervisor was located was so we could aim our projectiles with better accuracy... this is just making it WAY too easy!

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Christ. You're kidding. And I presume, since it's a call centre, none of you are in the public eye?

What. Is. The. Justification?

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

The same logic that says that people work better in a call center if dressed in suits. Some fuckhead thinks it raises morale because people think better of themselves because they are dressed more professionally and thus will act that way. Sometimes clients will also come in and see the monkeys dressed that way and actually be fooled that their customers are being treated that way too, until they listen to some calls.

[i-interrupted.livejournal.com]

i got out right before they implemented a dress code...literally the day before. and now i work across the street for the government hahaha

[i-interrupted.livejournal.com]

still in jeans and a t-shirt i might add

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

.....
..........O...M...G......
..OMFG!!!.....
*passes out*
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oh.. btw... stream ? *101*

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

http://www.stream.com/

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

i know... they also work for us.... +shivers+

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

Evil accursed place, lowest common denominator of tech support, theres one in Beaverton where my roomates worked or had worked when I lived there...

I was a mechanics shop assistant, I cant lower myself to work at Stream.

[dog-star-man.livejournal.com]

Hemorrhoid cushioning souls....hillarious.

[akage.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just...wow.

I think if I was a supervisor, I'd use the vest as a punishment.

"Okay, whoever has the most accumulated break time at the end of the month gets stuck wearing the retard vest, capiche?"