Engaged or Disengaged?

[93TalonES_NWS]

I work at a gas station.

Im engaged :)

[TheBlizzard]

That was a great post Craig!! I'm impressed :D


Thanks!

I know that I am engaged at my job, I always come in happy and generally leave happy. I make decent money and I work 6am-4pm Mon-Thurs, which to me is the best 40 hour schedule you can get. When I do things I am make sure they are done right to the best of my ability.

The reason I came up with this is because I see so many bottom dwellers just taking up space with no real purpose. They come to work - drink their coffee - smoke their pack of cigs - eat their cheese sandwhich - and then punch out and go home. They do not put anything into what they do; of course you have your select few that actually care but they are about 30% here. Most of the employees here have been enabled so long to do the bare minimum and get away with it that they do not know anything else. They have never been held accountable for their actions.

Well I am been trying to come up with more contructive ways to get people motivated to do the right thing. Like providing them with structured trainging and well prepared documents for reference to daily tasks. Sometimes I find with certain people is that they are not generally lazy but just untrained and misinformed which in turn makes them gun shy when it comes to doing anything extra. Once they are trained they totally changed. Those fall into the disengaged category, they are disengaged because they do not have the motivation to learn it themselves, they have to be taught. Some once they are taught become engaged because then they have gained some confidence.

[Pushit2.0]

Are you a manager now? I feel the same way on all that, I have also done all 3, and had to deal with people doing all 3 also, it sucks, and I like the engaged(married at this point) the best, which is where I am at now.

~John

[TheBlizzard]

Im am not the manager, but I do oversee the whole department in one way or another. Right now I am the Lead Slot Technician and am in charge of all training and compliance related categories. Basically I set all the standards from which we perform day to day operations; and what it takes to get from point A to point B without making mistakes.

I write all the Policies and Procedures for our department and generate training documents with hands on training sessions to go along with them. I have my hands in almost everything here, it doesn't get done unless I review it first to make sure all aspects have been gone over and understood. I have saw a drastic change in employee engagment since this new approach has been taken. Its not a bad thing to hold your employees to a higher standard; the ones that resist are the ones that not worth your time and need to be let go.

[TheBlizzard]

Brian (SlowWhite) has seen where I do most of my work; I gave him the grand tour on his final day last week. We run a pretty tight ship down here but this is a very fun place to work as well.

[Matt D.]

I know that I am engaged at my job, I always come in happy and generally leave happy. I make decent money and I work 6am-4pm Mon-Thurs, which to me is the best 40 hour schedule you can get.
Same here. I work 6am-3pm and love it.

[92EvilTalon]

I also have been in the three points stated. And right now I am bouncing between the engaged and not engaged. I dont hate the management but some of them don't treat us as humans. But more like numbers. that really makes me irate and puts me in the not engaged. Because I know I can get the job done and just leave. But I still strive to be engaged with the company. I also been trying to get a better job anyways so you could say I am actively disengaged. But I don't feel like that. Thanks for the great read hope this works out for your company.