About 3 or 4 years ago, I worked at a car parts plants. When I started, I was your typical enthusiastic mid 20's employee. We had a profit sharing program and a bunch of other dumb stuff that I thought was pretty cool. After some time, we were in a position where we were pushing out crazy numbers and even moving faster than the manufacturer we were working at. For about a month, we were killing it. Then, one day, an employee on the line overheard that the leads and the supervisor talking and laughing about how we were doing so good and how they were going to get bonuses but none of that was for the employees. As SOON as that came out, within a week, everyone in the department did a complete 180(there was about 25 employees in our department). We all realized right then and there that there was no point in putting in the effort if our own leads who we all thought were pretty cool people are in reality just reaping the rewards of our labor while they did jack shit throughout the day and LAUGHED about it. Productivity went down, and for about a month, our supervisor would have these little team meetings talking to us like we're kids about how we need to push harder and make time and all this b.s. but by then, everyone was over it. The place is one it's last legs and will be closing down this year. Fuck em