Today we had a staff away day where the whole organisations goes off site to plan for the year. It’s supposed to be mandatory but one colleague even told me they booked the day off as they shouldn’t have to travel further than the office.
I always find it very cliquey where people are in their friendship groups on break. I get on well and chat to people in the office so didn’t get why there were cliques, it happens every year.
I also didn’t like where the Chief Executive was getting angry about specific political figures. He does this every time yet we have a Code of Conduct where you are not to discuss political views at work, online or join political groups outside of work. Why can he do this?
The higher management have bad habit of blaming the staff for the failures when the fact is the IT system we use is obsolete, 20 years old and not fit for purpose and a new one is being implemented at the end of the year. I see that as a management failure as for years they refused to pay for a new system but customer complaints are high because they log customer data on spreadsheets as the system doesn’t allow it to be logged! Hence lost information.
Then another colleague was getting angry about some customers who have their own group and she wants to restrict their freedom of speech. Controlling, why can a colleague have a view and yet an opposing view in a respectful manner is not ok.
I have been reflecting and over the last few years I made lots of friends but they all left after 6-18 months as they realised how the organisation doesn’t have the resources in place as people are overstretched. I just felt lonely today as a lot of the nice people always leave.