https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-metamates-facebook-meta-employees-2022-2
There is no way in the WORLD that I would go for this slogan! “Meta, Metamates, Me”, what a JOKE!
It should be the other way around: “Me, Metamates, Meta”, that would make more sense.
I’ve only had a few employers: the bank, Pizza Hut, few really short lived others, but the one thing that I always noticed that the managers focused on was an employees personal health first. Because if you can’t be at your 100% best physically and emotionally then you can’t give 100% to your team or the company.
I remember there was a time when I got sick for about a week during the months that I worked at the bank, I came into work sick because I hadn’t built up enough sick or leave time yet to call in. But when the manager saw how pale and sweaty I was immediatly told me to go home, don’t worry about the absenses, give her a call daily, and don’t come back until I was ready.
Fortunately, the sickness only lasted a couple of days, but had I stayed at work there was no way I was going to be able to function properly. That would have led to errors which would have been bad for the branch and the company. But by tending to my needs first, the company was able to avoid any losses.
Secondly, you have to be focused on the team. This was very evident when I worked at Pizza Hut. That can be a rough crowd to work around with the sometimes crabby customers. But keeping the spirits up, or taking over a table when it needs to happen, or like I frequently did, buy the staff a few pizzas or trays of breadsticks. You’d be amazed at how fast food perks people up. I sure was!
Then by attending to the needs of the individual employee, then to the team, will the company then, in turn, profit. Which is the ultimate goal. Happy people, make happy teams, makes a happy company. There is no other way around it.
If you are the company, and you ask your employees to put the company first above themselves or their teammates, you are not going to have a productive company for very much longer. So take heed FB, your priorities are backwards, and if I didn’t have a reason not to work for you before, I sure do now!
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