During a staff meeting at our manufacturing plant, we were discussing our semi-annual 3day shutdown where we take care of projects, installations, extended maintenance jobs, etc… This was scheduled for end of October. During the meeting, the plant manager decided he suddenly wanted to move the outage to the three days before Thanksgiving Day. Nobody really objected, though you could see people were getting a little disappointed. While continuing to plan, it became apparent that the holiday was going to impose difficulties getting outside contractors to agree to commit that week, plant personnel on vacation or traveling for the holidays, union rules for working around holidays, and things like that. One of the senior engineers just says “Hey, instead of trying to deal with all these variables and unknowns, why don't we schedule the week after or before Thanksgiving Day, plus we won't have to worry about who has to cancel travel plans or impacting plant morale. ”
Plant Manager responds angrily, “I don't want to hear about Morale. IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO WORK HERE!”
Stunned silence follows as everyone i assume, like myself is wondering how absolutely insane that comment was. Even if you believe something so stupid, why would you ever vocalize such a thing to the staff that you just told to cancel holiday plans? The day after Thanksgiving is also a holiday for the employees here and has customarily seen the plant be closed with a skeleton crew of volunteers or a few essential people. He wanted everyone back into the plant to run it the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
What a typical corporate suck up.