10.19.11
The daily nausea from corporate America and its groupies
At Google, it’s the I-fart-sunshine crowd, where all the employees and bosses are “rockstars,” apparently because of free hair cuts and one-on-one meeting and shit.
Some excerpts, from a corporate America groupie publication (in case you don’t recall the 70’s — in which case, “Why are you here?” — groupies were the ladies of the road who blew the performers):
To keep employees motivated, agencies need to build a culture of learning, where employees leave more enriched at the end of each day.
A kulchur of learning to enrich you. Please.
Not every project is going to be awesome.
Keeping your rockstar employees on board has always been important, and don’t think that economic uncertainty will keep your employees around. Your company has worked hard to recruit some bright people …
What kind of swine do you have to be to use the word rockstar in reference to employees in corporate America?
In the basements of the Disneyland and Paradise Pier hotels in Anaheim, big flat-screen monitors hang from the walls in rooms where uniformed crews do laundry. The monitors are like scoreboards, with employees’ work speeds compared to one another. Workers are listed by name, so their colleagues can see who is quickest at loading pillow cases, sheets and other items into a laundry machine … Isabel Barrera, a Disneyland Hotel laundry worker for eight years, began calling the new system the “electronic whip” when it was installed last year. The name has stuck.
Tom Bray, a bellman at the Disneyland Hotel for 24 years, makes $8.25 an hour, plus tips, which can be unreliable.
By Local 11’s math, when Walt Disney ran the company in 1966, he made 108 times as much as one of his hotel housekeepers. Bob Iger, the current chief executive, makes 781 times as much as a housekeeper.
After making $28 million in total compensation last year, Iger’s base pay was just increased 25%.
I wonder if there’s an electronic whip in Iger’s office.