I used to work for a restaurant company that asked corporate staff to work in the restaurants one day per year plus clean the office kitchen once every six months. I’ve never seen so much non Union worker solidarity in opposition to these tiny tiny ass requests.
I used to work for Publix, a grocery chain in the south east US. They talk a big game to the new hires that no matter how high up you make it in the company, you’re not too high to do the tasks of the entry level employees. You’ll even see the CEO in some of the stores in Lakeland, Florida. I’ve always felt it was for show because all you’ll ever see anyone in a management position do is bag groceries. There could be a dozen other tasks that need doing that would take priority, but don’t worry, you have time to do those things because the guys making 6 figures are on bagger duty.
Be real, how many jobs do you trust a suit to be able to figure out? Do you really want one of them behind an electric pallet jack?
No, but cleaning up the disgusting public bathroom is doable
I didn’t mention in my original post but the company only hires within, meaning that every single person within the company started at an entry level position, many of them did operate pallet jacks. Every suit that did come and pretend to look like they were working hard did do that job at one point. I think that’s what made it even more infuriating to me
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A couple of night stock shifts would be good for them.
“Oh you wanted a bonus this year CEO person? You’re in luck, you can join the company pizza party!”
A lot of those jobs require some form of training. What’s the point of training everyone for every job?
I should’ve mentioned in my original post that Publix is a hires within company. Everybody including the current CEO started at an entry level position. Obviously no one person knows how to do everything, but all the top level employees ran their own department before running their own store, district, region, etc. Obviously I’m biased, my feelings toward the company are less than favorable after working there. It was just irritating to see someone who has made millions but somehow has the time to run to various stores and kick people off of bagging duty so they can pretend to look like down to earth upper management. It was my first hand experience to seeing just how unnecessary certain corporate positions really are
This is actually a very good culture and mindset to foster. First hand experience will always be king in helping people making informed decisions.
So … There’s finally going to be some employees in there?
Oh cool, it’s the corporate version of those people who cosplay as homeless by “living on the streets” for a week
Or its to emphasise where you actually make your money. A lot of people in offices far away from where the money is earned end up making up convoluted versions of reality to fit their processes, applications and such. Making everyone do a day on the floor of the business emphasizes that this part of the business is key.
It can be done the right way too. My wife’s company does something similar and it helps a lot with how the back office thinks of processes. They also are encouraged to use these informal contacts to check new things they imagine would be helpful. They have scrapped entire projects after collecting feedback and running fields tests this way. At the same time their front line feels they can actually provide feedback that is heard.
Good. As an engineer in a factory I’m sometimes called to help meet a shipment (we’re not well run) and I stand by that if it wasn’t necessary it would be good. Leadership needs to understand the base level value add of a company
I’ve done shadowing of other roles at a couple jobs. Honestly it’s kinda fun, you learn a lot about other peoples problems so you can do your job better but also it’s pretty fun, like getting a whole new job for a day
It’s something, but it’s also temporary. They know it will end in 8hrs, and can just put on a show for that time.
Let’s see them pull a week, one day in each role. Lets see them pull 2 weeks. No special privileges, extra breaks, etc. The same break room and conditions everyone gets.
One day is just a pulp song. 2 weeks? Then things may change.
And even more, it hits different when you know “this is my life” and not “i just have to do this for a while”. The absence of any hope contributes so much to the pain.
100% this is someone’s life that the boss gets to cosplay for a day
I’m not mad at this. I wonder how it’ll work out in the long run.
“Don’t give the VP any difficult jobs that involve any sort of hard work. Just let him stand over there and tell people thanks for coming to Home Depot.”
Honestly this is a good policy that most companies should do. It’s easy to ignore problems that don’t affect oneself, so make it affect them.
Like a bug that seems minor to a software manager may be a huge pain in the ass to a clerk that uses the software all day.
