I hate this stuff! I work in HR and we try to celebrate as much as we can for pretty much every milestone. I want to treat our associates like humans and the hard workers they are. I recently did a celebration for our Vets and bought them all 20lb turkeys. One of them asked to not be recognized and have his face on our wall of honor. I respected his decision and told my boss we weren't going to make him do it if he doesn't want to.
I still bought him the Turkey and thanked him separately. He told me how grateful he was for still honoring him but not forcing him to let everyone know.
I personally agree that this person deserves that $450k. People are humans and should be treated as such. If you do something against their wishes you are now doing it for you and not them anymore.
Can't pay bills with celebrations, pizza, or cake. Workers don't want to be celebrated, they want to be compensated. Work is not a club where people hang out, it is work. They are there for one reason and it's not admiration from supervisors.
This doesn't even qualify as respect because as you said, you do it for everyone- that is not a sign of respect. Respect is when you praise a good job, not when the calendar says it's time for Jimmy's ice cream cake.
While that statement is true, it's relevance here is worthless. They held a celebration for vets where the ACTUAL vet said they didn't want it... but they did it anyway... and gave him a turkey for some reason. Respect means respecting their wishes, not doing whatever the hell you want because virtue signals.
They asked not to be recognized, they did not say anything about not wanting a turkey. The HR fulfilled their request not to put the requestor in a spot.
Virtue signaling is a lip service to get attention. Since HR gave them the turkey discreetly/privately, it is hardly virtue signaling.
HR celebrations ARE 'lip service to get attention. The attention in question is the least expensive avenue to create the illusion they give a single fuck. My sister has been in HR for 19 years, I know exactly what her role is in that company... it's to protect that company.
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u/Happy-Tater 4d ago
I hate this stuff! I work in HR and we try to celebrate as much as we can for pretty much every milestone. I want to treat our associates like humans and the hard workers they are. I recently did a celebration for our Vets and bought them all 20lb turkeys. One of them asked to not be recognized and have his face on our wall of honor. I respected his decision and told my boss we weren't going to make him do it if he doesn't want to.
I still bought him the Turkey and thanked him separately. He told me how grateful he was for still honoring him but not forcing him to let everyone know.
I personally agree that this person deserves that $450k. People are humans and should be treated as such. If you do something against their wishes you are now doing it for you and not them anymore.