The Plauge has lifted!

Giggle...

Well today was an absolute hoot!

I got to go around distributing flyers for the Relay for Life Bratwurst benefit lunch.

:D

You should have seen the way people looked at me. Too funny. All is well, several people signed up, and everyone seems to feel at ease to talk and joke with me again. Geeze.

The gal who cause all the rucuous at our plant two weeks ago had come up and appologized to me week before last.

"I just wanted a better working environment.", she told me after asking me not to hold hard feelings against her, that she didn't mean for it to turn out that way, and was crying to our plant manager about it the Monday morning following the whole ordeal... I, of course, told her it all worked out okay, I was fine, and that a better working environment wasn't too much to ask.

(I know better than to do anything that would be reguarded as mis-treatment, or retaliation toward her, so I play the game of 'nicey nice' and she is rendered helpless...)

What else I know...she didn't use the chain of command, but immediately hotlined.

HR didn't use a warning or coaching process. They just did interviews and then suspensions and a termination.

After that there were phone calls by the distraught employees from the plant about the termination to the hotline. Followed by more interviews, a ban on bandana sales for Relay for Life, a question about what was talked about by workers outside of work (against NLRA...) an imprisionment of 3 people for 3 hours because they had purchased bandanas (one of them 7 months pregnate), and a Spanish Inquisition of me and others as to why we were selling bandanas.

In the end, the corporate lawyers were flown in, the terminated employee re-instated, quickly I might add, and the other employees involved re-enstated and quietly transferred to other departments.

Sure has been nice to be back to normal and everything peaceful again.

I am waiting for HR to realize just one more thing--just how nuts the girl is who started it all...She will eventually snap with everyone treating her so well, and not doing anything she can report. Perhaps she will start making things up. That would be fun, wouldn't it? Heh, give those kinds of people an inch, where they think they have sooooo much power, they will try to take a mile and run out of road at the end of a cliff.

So, I bide my time till I get to LMAO...

The Plauge

Don't try this at work...

If you are genuinely a friendly person, and you get along pretty well with everyone, including the "office folks" don't try selling anything for charity at work.

Evidently because I sold red bandanas to help raise funds for Relay For Life, I am now 'off-limits'.

I was informed, that is solicitation.

Hmmm. Okay, look it up.

No solicitaion for everyones favorite cause during "working times".

I can see how that might have been a violation.

However, people sell girl scout cookies, bring in school fund raisers, hand out avon books, and sell plants and teddy bears....I have given to all of them.

Google it.

Ah, there it is, a policy that is not consistently enforced.

Interesting.

I am told "You cannot sell bandanas for now, until we review our policy on the proper way to get approval."

"Okie-dokie, just so ya know, they are having a bake sale tomorrow.", I politely inform them.

"We will be having a bake sale before work and during lunch tomorrow." is announced over the intercom shortly after my discussion.

I see, got that covered now. Someone else has been edjumacated, I suppose.

All day long salaried employees will not look at me, literally circumvent me and I get this odd feeling, they cannot speak with me.

Now the best part of that is I wouldn't notice at all if I didn't normally say "Hi" to absolutely everyone in my path, and am friendly with all the salaried folks as I go in and out of their offices on a regular basis.

Ah, well, perhaps they now think I am trying to be the team leader of a union. That is a hoot!

Anyone who knows me and my background will understand I am generally against unionization, I was an assistant manager with Wal-mart for God's sake, I know this. I understand the "ins" and "outs" of them generally, with a Human Resource Management minor, and I don't really like the idea.

We have an excellent plant manager, an anonymous ethics hotline, and make excellent wages with good benefits. Who on earth would want to pay fees and not be able to help do whatever job is available or have management work right along side of them, instead of having to go through a "process", feeling distanced from management, and not being able to work at a different position if that "wasn't your job"?

Sometimes Unions are necessary, but not here.

Facinating, really.

I am tempted to casually inform them I don't really care for unions, but I suppose they will relax after a while.

For now I guess I have the "Plauge"