Does US AIRWAYS associate 'low morale' with 'low productivity'?

[Tim Nelson]

regards,

Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

 

[AluminumEnemaTime]

regards,

Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

Tim, whether they associate it or not, the bean counters can't read it on a chart, so the answer would be NO. I no that about 90% of my coworkers are working well below their full production levels.

But, that being said they are working right even with the level that the wages and benefits shoved down their throats thru 2 bankputcies deserve. But, now the company doesn't want to reward the employees when the company turns a profit and things are good. Its a sad cycle. Most employees would rather ramp it up, but the company has to ramp us up to make that happen.

For me, I still give 100% a week! Thats broken down to 20% each day.

 

[ekjkj]

I can't believe we all agree on something. The company must have blocked access to this site on their computors so no management have voted yet-Ed

 

[CynicalResAgent]

I am trying to find it online somewhere but I thought I read a study that said depressed workers are more productive because they are more likely to concentrate on work to forget their personal issues.

 

[OldGuyinPA]

I think Darth Parker is delusional and in denial.

He needs to go ....

 

[legacy-to-LCC]

I am trying to find it online somewhere but I thought I read a study that said depressed workers are more productive because they are more likely to concentrate on work to forget their personal issues.

i can assure you that this is patently false! mental illness, specifically depression, cost us companies billions of dollars a year. it seems trite to quantify mental illness into a dollar amount...but, alas, $$ is the language of business.

consider some of the symptoms of generalized depression and how they would translate into work performance: loss of interest in things that were once important; insomnia/hypersomnia; irritability; reclusiveness...

i don't doubt that you encountered that study somewhere; i doubt the authors of it.

 

[AluminumEnemaTime]

I am trying to find it online somewhere but I thought I read a study that said depressed workers are more productive because they are more likely to concentrate on work to forget their personal issues.

Just because employees have low morale doesn't mean they are depressed, Most of the usairways employees have seperated their emotions from the company.

 

[NCFL]

Tempe certainly demonstrated it didn't give a hoot about my morale or my well being. The result? A formerly hard-working employee who gave 100% almost every day is now giving 0%: I quit.

 

[4merresrat]

Tim, whether they associate it or not, the bean counters can't read it on a chart, so the answer would be NO. I no that about 90% of my coworkers are working well below their full production levels.

But, that being said they are working right even with the level that the wages and benefits shoved down their throats thru 2 bankputcies deserve. But, now the company doesn't want to reward the employees when the company turns a profit and things are good. Its a sad cycle. Most employees would rather ramp it up, but the company has to ramp us up to make that happen.

For me, I still give 100% a week! Thats broken down to 20% each day.

So admitedly you and 90% of your co-workers give less that 100%, and are working at your perceived pay level.

I still wonder why you just don't quit if you are so miserable? Why don't you find a job that pays more, and that you could be content, and possibly give your all?

 

[AluminumEnemaTime]

So admitedly you and 90% of your co-workers give less that 100%, and are working at your perceived pay level.

I still wonder why you just don't quit if you are so miserable? Why don't you find a job that pays more, and that you could be content, and possibly give your all?

Why should I quit, I didn't say I wasn't happy. I am content, just making less than what I should.

Plus I have to much time to quit and the longer I work the closer I get to evening the score. YEA BABY YEA

 

[autumn68]

regards,

Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

 

[autumn68]

regards,

Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

Take it from a furloughed/ now retired MO/AL/US employee with 33 years service............the last person to even have a clue regarding any kind of employee morale and its effects on the company was Ed Colodny.

 

[bagchucker]

Just because employees have low morale doesn't mean they are depressed, Most of the usairways employees have seperated their emotions from the company.

I know a fair amount of folks that work for this company who take Prozac.... I can also tell you that morale in the station I work at is pretty low both inside and outside. People are pretty ho-hum at this point...tired of being herded by the company in various directions, only to end up back at square one with nothing.

 

[bagchucker]

The regime in Tempe is REALLY out of touch with their employees, unfortunately. They claim that they listen to us, but the things that really matter get swept under the rug in the sand castle. Notice we haven't had a "culture" survey from the company in quite a while. I'd say they choose to avoid hearing the sorry truth about how most of us feel. It is a freaking joke! One example: We can't even order uniforms right now. We have guys working on the ramp in their street clothes. We can't order jackets, so people are cold on the ramp. What a charade it is, and the company doesn't even grasp the impact that it has. Morale? What is that you ask? Hmmmm... get a clue Tempe.

 

[AluminumEnemaTime]

I know a fair amount of folks that work for this company who take Prozac.... I can also tell you that morale in the station I work at is pretty low both inside and outside. People are pretty ho-hum at this point...tired of being herded by the company in various directions, only to end up back at square one with nothing.

This company is not worthy of getting depressed over. I was very very angry for years during and after the bankruptcy floggings we took. I actually had to scrub the usairways off of me when I got home from work in the shower. That was not a healthy attitude for anyones well being.

There is allot more to life than allowing your job to bring you down.

Now, I have come to realize that this is just a place to show up for a paycheck and health coverage. Don't get me wrong, I still my work, and I have never been in trouble for work performance. But the days of going the extra mile are long gone. It would be to even go an extra inch nowadays.