BREAKING NEWS: P&G win gold on the mumsnet family awards (which they sponsor)

[iloveberries]

Anyone else a bit cynical about this and think that P&G have basically 'bought' the award. My best friend and husband used to work there (how i met him) and I can guarantee they are anything BUT family friendly to work for!!!

according to a previous post, Mindthegappp said:

"I switched from working for a major blue chip to teaching ...."

Why can't you have just said that here?!!

Anyway. I spent a lot of time working with P&G in London and Geneva, including socialising, where colleagues would be very honest about their experiences; and as with many companies, it's good and bad. One colleague left, as she was repeatedly refused the opportunity to work from home occasionally (which would have been perfectly possible). Another was forced to move, with family, to Geneva, if he wanted to keep his job, having been previously informed he could live in London.

OTOH, maternity leave pay was good, and the perks are/were good in terms of products and discounts.

The thing is, everybody, is that P&G is superior. The fact that your company does one thing is neither here nor there. This thread is not about the amorphous nature of all companies. It is about an individual company.

How do you know???!

I am genuinely laughing out loud - in fact..I'm going to go there..I'm going to LOL at me being asked if I have anything to contribute to thread...

1. Have we met?

2. You are clearly a marketing tool for P&G, fess up, take your lumps and wait for the horrors of the morning, because as I said earlier - if you'd have left this alone, it is likely that this thread would have died a tiny squirming death. Instead you've fanned the flames and now half of mumsnet are on your arse. Well done

3. Pampers nappies were BRILLIANT when I had a baby. There - I said something positive. (11 years ago)

I preferred Huggies.

Good God, Gomez - I am not the kind of woman to have a partner. I have a husband.

But did you not ask for people to list what policies/incentives would make for a family friendly company? So a wider conversation than perhaps that 'individual company'.

Ah, Mind is on the wind up. Bravo

But my point isn't about my company - my point is that you can only judge from the inside and you have given no indication that you are doing that

Really? How quaint.

Hmm could well be PR for the competition, just the type of thing a PR co would dream up. Fan flames, keep a derogatory thread going yadda yadda

I wonder if you have to sign something when you leave that stipulates you can't slag them off publicly? Forcing disgruntled former employees to be more creative in making them look like evil corporate goons?

Please can we discuss what we think are the key parent friendly initiatives?

this is the most surreal thread I have EVER read on here.

i don't want to get dragged into it or i'll never get to bed... but... but..

If you dont work for the company MTG, why on earth would you have such biased views to the point you seem almost besotted with the company. That just does not add up really, does it?

Any company can list a load of "benefits"...the reality is often very different.

And Pringles are the most vile foodstuff ever created. :)

Isn't it AWFUL thisisyesterday?

I've got WORK tomorrow...

Think Chickens might have a point..... although judging by previous threads, maybe not......

i LOVE how everyone with something negative to say about P&G has to prove how they know that and must state clearly that they work for them and have experienced it first hand

but MTG does not have to do this. she can continue to make astounding statements of "fact" despite the fact that she doesn't work for them and will not say how she knows this...

it's beyond bizarre

"The thing is, everybody, is that P&G is superior"

Actually ROFL

MindtheGapppThu 03-Nov-11 22:26:34:
"I don't work for P&G.

But I am objective."

Errrr, right MTG, you ARE objective.
But I think you're mistaking the word objective for the word obsessive or maybe paid?

I must go to bed or I won't be very family friendly in the morning - night - have fun!

Need to go to sleep but want to watch this thread pan out!

I didn't twig for ages that we were talking about Proctor and Gamble. I thought it was about PGL adventure holidays

I was going to say, objective is the one thing you are most certainly NOT, MTG.

Obsessed, most certainly.

Hahahahha BOF!

P&G were the ones that did that ad that made any vaguely feminist mother boke their rings out - remember? The one where the mums were all completely invisible?