Hank [BS/MSEE,
MSM $$$, Ph.D. Mgmt] teaches As entrepreneurs, at some point in time, you will have employees. Books, college courses, seminars, and careers have been built on consulting employers as to how to treat and/or deal with employees. It’s what OLS is all about. The three pictures below say it all - what say you? Have you ever felt like doing something not socially acceptable because an employer treated you badly? How will you avoid this as an entrepreneur? Knowing no more than you do about The Founding Collegians, would it be a fun place to be employed? - Hank.
Great pictures! The last 2 pictures show that no matter how well your security infrastructure maybe, if you don’t factor humans into the equation, you’re really exposed.
I only wish that I would have the nerve to do something like this–at least then if I got fired, I’d go out with a flare.
As for The Founding Collegians being a fun place to work, I believe it would be. They obviously had fun putting the website together and it seems as if they put a lot of their personalities in it as well. The website wasn’t uppity and formal; it was casual and relaxed. If the website is any indication of the work environment, I don’t think any day that went by would be a dull one.
Reading these signs it is pretty obvious that the employees were pissed at the owner. If owners don’t treat employees well they will obviously get a negative response from the employees. I have read many books on leadership and there are many examples of how owners of companies should treat employees to get the best response possible. I think that working for The Founding Collegians would be a great place to work because how could working for a beer pong product company not be fun? How badly would you want to work for the products testing department for the company?
The people who made those signs defiantly got their laugh. I have had my fair share of horrible manners and I have wanted to do something like that as well. Nothing is worse than having a boss that you can’t stand. I am nice to just about everybody so I’m sure I wouldn’t treat anybody too badly. I would try to talk to them as more of an equal rather than like they were below me. As for the founding collegians, I would love to work with them. How fun would it be to sell beer pong racks for a living?
I have to say I love the pictures, especially the last two. I’ve gotten fed up with many employers, though I’ve only resorted to not answering their phone calls. I think I would have worked a lot harder had my employer cared to find out what I thought of their work once in a while. It just shows what companies lack the corporate entreprenuership to succeed in the business. Keeping things new and exciting is motivating for employees to do well at their job.
As for working for the Founding Collegians, I think it would work well with my personality. It seems the atmosphere might be fun, interesting, laid back, and a much more creative working environment than most jobs I’ve ever had. It’d be like living out your college years at work, who wouldn’t want that?
These pictures are hilarious, and something that could actually happen at your job if you were mad enough. I mean if you are getting fired why not hurt that company because I know if I had enough guts to do that I sure would.
As for working for the Founding Collegians, I think the experience would be fun and there would be no other job like it but I dont think that is how I would want to spend my college education and time designing something that is meant not to be organized. I think that some things should just take place whenever they need be instead of being organized because thats not what most things should be. For instance, with the beer pong rack, I think that the game is made to have fun and be messy and the main point of the game is to see how drunk you can get the other team, it isnt meant to be organized and planned out to where everything is set.
Employees are either the company’s finest asset or greatest liability. Depending on which route you take, that can be the make-or-break point of the company. As an employer, you should treat your employees like each one is important to the success of the company. Treating them like they’re a part of the team and not just another worker is what every employer should have as a part of the company policy.
Your employees are the faces and arms of your business, if they’re happy they’ll be more efficient and take more pride in their work. And on the flip, if they’re not content, it could get ugly, just like the pics illustrate.
The moral of this is not how to treat you employees better, but damage control. After you fire your employees, you should restrict there access to customers as much as possible. As a boss, you will have to fire people and they will be pissed. You should assume they might do something vengeful.
I know Know first hand how it feels to hate your employer. I worked at the movies for 1 1/2 years and hated every minute that I was on the clock. Walking into my job made me physically ill. Every day I did everything in my control to let every customer know that our employers treated us horribly.Some lady even contacted some type of regional officials and came an observed our working conditions.
When people are unhappy with their jobs they let it show, when I hire employees I will do everything in my power to create a comfortable work enviornment because I know how they felt.
The pictures are great! Sometimes it’s great to see someone sticking it to the man.
Given the product these guys are selling, I’d say it would be a fun place to work at because it’s small right now, and the product development and testing should be pretty sweet! Haha
As an owner of my own small landscape firm at home, in Madison, IN, I have a few years of experience with dealing with employees as well as NOT PISSING THEM OFF. Well, first of all, I think you don’t piss them off by keeping them motivated and productive in the first place. I try to give my guys goals to work toward and rewards for meeting those goals. I try to praise them for anything they’ve done well in front of people at work and discuss things they need to work on individually.
A real nice guy was recently fired at work because he stood up to some unfair treatment. He
the gm in the face. If that’s not reason enough not piss off the employees, I don’t know what
is. Also, happy and satisfied employees in anything to do with person to person sales is of
the utmost importance.
Pissing off employees can really hurt your businees since THEY do the main work not YOu. Bosses delegate work, so they must put themselves in their employees feet and see for a second how hard it is for them too. If they are genuinely wasting office resources, they should be handed the pink slips. Other than that, social functions where employees and employers meet in a relaxed environment, bonuses for employee’s hard work recognition and other such things boost employee morale, strongly affecting company success.
Hmm…they look like they have been Photoshopped. Original link anyone?
Ah, hell they have been photoshopped!! Worth.com is a photoshopping contest site!!
These images also remind me of my previous work experiences. In the majority of my old jobs i was treated like crap and had no incentive to work hard or even work at all. By the end of almost every job, I came to hate almost all of the management. Even though I didn’t rebel like this, I still wasn’t too eager to ever come back to work for those companies. At my most recent job, which was a small upholstery company, i worked directly with the entrepreneur. I learned a lot of things, but by far the most important thing I learned was in order to have great, long term employees, you have to treat them right including good pay so that they don’t just walk out on you for a competitor.
Wow! Thats all you can really say but yeah you will be working with people in your business so I’d ty to be on their good side.
I worked in a call center for Cablevision, and the director went on a firing spree. Fired preg women who came in 1-5 min late, and other real petty things. Fired other people for reasons that would never get you fired at a normal job..
So, I sent an e-mail to the ceo, and his exec’s explaining the director was a nazi.
They fired me!
I got a 6 mo vacation on unemployment and found a real job..
But, I got em good.