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My true thank you to the MTSOs who acknowledge - employees this time of year. (sm)

Posted: Dec 20, 2010

It is truly appreciated by those in receipt. Even if I am not one of them, I still want to thank the companies and managers who really do express gratitude in one form or another for a job well done.

Whether you are an MT or an MTSO: Gratitude goes a long way.

Grateful MT

And individual thank-you's (heaven forbid) occasionally - would be very appreciated. nm

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nm

I'd thank someone - If anyone would hire me.

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Been looking for work for months. Now it's the holidays and I have no money, no gifts, no tree. Family is far away, no money to travel. Will be spending Christmas as just another day because no one hired me. So there's no one to thank for anything. Would of like to thank someone for even a card. Guess I don't have to now.

Thanks for nothing.

Oracle is hiring if you dare take the chance with them. - nm

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mq is hiring too . Both are back biters. NM - me innw

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Good luck!

That is impossible without an Org Chart - Try it sometime.

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I've tried many years to thank my company individually, have no idea who to send it to. Have sent it to supervisor, but have feeling it goes no further.

It isn't as if we don't WANT to send personal thanks for crying out loud.

I just feel a lot different from many. Wherever I've worked, - Pragmatist

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like most, thank yous come in e-mails, etc., all through the year, a handful personal, others the usual group things. Dictators close with rote thanks. A card at Christmas, sometimes more.

That's fine with me as far as thank-yous go. (Sure, money's nice when it happens, but that's because it's...money, not a thank-you.)

The thing is, if I don't feel precious, I also don't feel neglected or specifically unappreciated.

WHY should employers need to always be stroking employees, trying to generate long-distance fuzzies? As grownups, isn't generating our own feeling of self worth through our own actions our job?

I totally agree. I am so appreciate to my - company and bosses

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who provide me with work and a paycheck. That is all the thanks I need. Wonder if anyone ever sends their company or manager a Christmas card or gift?

I did... - Cause I love my boss

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I don't worry about getting thank-you's either.

But I like to show my appreciation for having a boss that will adjust my schedule if needed, or call to say my favorite account has work on it.

I think people today believe they are owed something, but I am old school... I work hard and am thankful for what I earned myself.

It harkens back to a different time/era - sm

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Back in the good old days, companies wanted to inspire employee loyalty and retention and fostered that with the feel-good stuff. While we were never irreplaceable, we have never been more expendable, so there is absolutely no need for a corporation to foster the warm-fuzzies as they could care less if an employee stays or goes- there are thousands of others more than happy to step into any opening.

Very well stated. I agree. - sm

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I don't need the warm-fuzzies either to know that I am a valuable employee. That being said, however, corporate and employee attitudes have changed so much over the years. I'm not sure why...what came first, the chicken or the egg kind of thing. But even though I know quite a few employees like myself who are hard workers, professional, and loyal, it is hard to find loyalty in an employer nowadays. We are used much the same way they would use a computer or any other type of machinery. There is no humanity in the corporate world, and I don't mean just MT. The ONLY thing that matters is the bottom dollar, and I'm not alone in that assessment. It has been said on a lot of the news talk shows regarding million-dollar bonuses for CEOs and such.

Remember when it was said that business is a "dog-eat-dog" atmosphere? Those were the days when it was cut-throat to competing companies. Now it's cut-throat with anything that has to do with saving the company money, including the treatment of employees. So much has changed in the last 15 years.

What happened was a watershed change in - employment turnover times.

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With changes in technology and the dynamics of our economy, everything and everybody became more mobile and subject to change. With it was lost the paternalism of employers who were expected to at least pretend they were taking good care of employees (though VERY often were not) and in turn expected a weight of gratitude for and acceptance of what was offered, along with unquestioning loyalty, that most would find outrageous today. Of course, the relative independence and responsibility for self that accrued to employees through all this is not appreciated by all.

Relative independence and responsibility for self? - ??

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gag.

Relative independence = translation: You have the independence to work whatever hours you want to because you'll need all 24 of them to make your quota, possibly.

Responsibility to self accrued to employees = translation: This is what we are now going to call PTO.

What you don't appreciate that? Why, you selfish little employee.

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