I kid you not, check out this story from ABCnews.com’s Working Wounded Blog – Biggest Job Complaints. The post references a previous online survey the blogger performed and I’ll steal his thunder and reveal the biggest complaint:
…people who steal food from the company refrigerator
Are you laughing yet? It’s true. It keeps going:
She described in painful detail about how her thief opened a box of chicken wings, ate half of them and then carefully put the bones back in the box and resealed the container.
I’m laughing, but I have been a “victim” of this corporate crime myself. The blogger references another study of a similar ilk. The number 1 complaint about the office:
too cold
And you can guess what the number 2 complaint was in that survey:
too hot
The blogger follows this information up with a good point about topics I refer to as “petty tortures”:
What is the moral of this story? Management tends to focus on the big stuff in those rare times when it focuses on employee morale. Issues like bullies, food thieves and temperature are not the kind of stuff that most managers think of when they focus on employee satisfaction. Yet these are the very issues that are wearing down your people.