They made a mandatory meeting for everyone to come out be told "I'm In". This was not optional, this was pushed on staff along with the changes made in and around the building.
Upper management was told to go around to their staff a year ago and ask what could be done by the company to make them happier to be at work, everything except for raises was permitted to be asked for. In fact, getting a raise to get closer to industry standards was indeed the one thing not available to staff. Don't get me wrong, management certainly gets industry standard, or at least VERY close to it, but the people that are actually doing the work to keep the company alive are being fed peanuts all the while increasing their work load. This is in spite of many promises of raises in the past that never happened.
The average none management employee is doing about 125% percent of what is expected in an 8 hour day (some individuals in management are doing even more, but executives working at that rate are few and far between)
Part of the idea was to bring staff together, to make them more of a family, yet you can still see the contempt many have for each other in their eyes or by the tones of their voices when they speak to one another or are forced to collaborate on a task.
There are still many cliques in the company and i don't see that changing any time soon. Many useless employees have entrenched themself into their positions and cause more roadblocks/problems then they are worth but due to upper management not being involved/caring about lower level positions, they stay and do not improve the situations. A big part of this is that they never speak to staff unless it is to blurt something out and walk away, or have selective hearing/don't care. On this note, a number of employees are simply scared to voice their opinions for fear of loosing their job.
They brought in an individual to try and help direct them. This was good idea, used poorly (this is a trend). They bring this person in who genuinely cares about improving the culture, yet the only people that ever sit down with them are the people in management who have no idea what is going on and it is almost like the "leaders" keep her away form the individuals they know are not happy, thus not improving the situation.
Gossip is something that has a tendency to run rampant in any office environment, however, when HR is the worst gossip, who are you supposed to go and talk to about an issue? If there is no one you can actually bring a complaint to, how do you fix anything?
There is a manager that has locked into their position, yet any time they are given people to report them, they employee ends up quitting their job (how do you not see this trend?)
They say that all staff should be able to provide feedback, and went out and invested in a company called Plasticity, this forum allows all to give feedback.....positive feedback, to the company so that they can feel like they actually care about the people they employ. You care about your staff? Well how about instead of investing 1.7 Million (this number pulled from published news on the investment) you instead took that money and paid your staff a little better?)
As a way of growing, Fibernetics has started to buy other providers, spending millions on every purchase, but not investing any of the income back into their staff, who take on even larger work loads to integrate these company's into the fold while still keeping up on their day to day activity's.
When it comes to "fitting in" with the "I'm In" culture, unless you are among those that are close with upper management/owners, you are left out of the loop on social gatherings, office chatter or just about anything that would make work more enjoyable. Instead, you get more of a feeling of "Why are you bothering us?" or "What do you want?"
