The new “Champions club” announcement just made me roll my eyes. I don’t want to fly somewhere to hobnob with execs, that’s a prize?!? Just give me the money as a bonus increase or some extra shares. Even better, extra WFH day! And having seen how the existing awards are just used to puff up key contributors… it just amplifies the echo chamber. The way we had some points attached to SendWords at TDA was way more motivating and probably cheaper…
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This reminds me of a program Marketing is currently running, where big projects from various teams are posted on a central board, and members from other teams volunteer to help with those projects to get kudos points, on top of their existing workload. They framed it as "a learning experience". You know...anything except hire enough staff in the first place!
These boomers are hilarious. All we have to do is tell them they just won free chores and they will be excited about it. Perfect Christmas gift next year
The promise of "giving us exposure among the top heads of the organization" for some insincere hob-knobbing is essentially treating your employees like little children who have not found themselves yet and need to beg at the table for crumbs of attention. It's a cr-ppy way to insult our intelligence and zig-zag around rewarding us financially.
So much this.
It was one thing decades ago when we'd meet with Chuck and he was involved enough to explain why he was driving in a specific direction or at least fake listening.
Today? This is pig lipstick no better than a glint in our eye. (get it?)
At least no one should be surprised that this is McKinsey's first act. RTO5 is coming. Perfect attendance will become an award.
At least I have a dedicated parking spot in the Westlake garage structure...
B33rs on me, come thru youngins
Are you taunting us? Or are you supporting us? As for us, we are very straightforward in our objective here, in an environment that we find to be not as straightforward.
B33rs on me, come thru youngins
> There's no pleasing you young people. You complain about lack of opportunity yet you dismiss very real opportunities like this. Face time with the C-Suite is the way to get your name out there, demonstrate what you can offer Schwab.
Nope! Connections happen normally during the course of normal work, without the need for circus stunts like this. As you do great work, your name spreads organically throughout the organization as a person who is capable and talented in XYZ, facilitating your ability to interact with and move to other departments and become noticed by others.
We are not entry level interns who need to jump at every new shiny object in order get exposure to every field of work in order to find ourselves. We are established professionals who have already found our career paths and are focused on progressing along that path because they represent where our true strengths and talents lie. Our continued education also continues along this established path in order to enhance our performance along this path.
The promise of "giving us exposure among the top heads of the organization" for some insincere hob-knobbing is essentially treating your employees like little children who have not found themselves yet and need to beg at the table for crumbs of attention. It's a cr-ppy way to insult our intelligence and zig-zag around rewarding us financially.
This is the only manner in which we prefer our merit-based compensation: in the form of gratitude during our performance reviews, and in the form of full and fair financial rewards.
Look at it as your one chance to voice your whiny petty complaints about RTO to executive leadership face to face with a free trip to TX to boot. Why wouldn’t want that
There's no pleasing you young people. You complain about lack of opportunity yet you dismiss very real opportunities like this. Face time with the C-Suite is the way to get your name out there, demonstrate what you can offer Schwab.
Ha! I thought the same thing when I read that email. Why the he-l would I want to fly to Texas to mingle with the brass? Leave me alone to do my job.
Everytime someone mentions TDA, I get so sad. We really had it good there. Even during the busiest, most challenging day at TDA, you still felt autonomous, motivated and valued. And yes, the perks were so much better.
It isn't about you or us.
It's a photo op for the EC to show that they "care".
They don't care