Look at the photo with attendant victims and prisoners. The important “Management / Sales / Motivational ? meeting can be seen in the background – directly in front of the window. What a scene. What a good use of highly trained ( and rewarded) management skills and talents . Never mind the costs of these donut “shop” employees off the job , or of the lost sales and effects on “corporate image” by the skeleton staff manning the counters. Customer service ??
The photo on hand is of a “sales meeting” of staff of a local “donut shop” , that has already run one hour in length . On top of that the event took yet another 60 minutes of time on the clock , before final completion and summary.
In most cases , if you have not made your point within an hour – then you have lost the attention span of all involved .
The specific victims are in the far background by the light shining through the windows. It is a case basically of prisoners being held at attention by the warden of the prison.
It’s all a case of power. This manager can well envision and marvel at the great power that he wields over others, less superior than his status – the “peons”.
By the time this photo had been snapped the meeting had dragged on for at least an hour , with yet another hour of torment to go. You can observe . the real level of attention by the participants by the bored expressions of the attendants trying to appear raptly interested. Note the child in the left foreground in front of the counter. Several enterprising employees have even brought their children as props – either for sympathy or moral support. If this isn’t a proper test, in the real world, of and for management candidates that have the skills to think on their feet , on the fly and yet motivate others to do your bidding and wishes what could be? Perhaps this is the real reason for this apparent case of torture. An advanced sophisticated head office test process for evaluating and testing staff for advanced managerial as well as supervisory skill-sets and aptitudes.
Effective meetings generally run an hour. If your case has not been made and points covered within an hour time period then the whole event is a worthless washout that truthfully should never of been held . The manger “hosting” this voluntary “pep session” should of better slept in and called in sick , or better yet had mechanical car troubles on the way to “work”. All it in it can be said that this this event will only serve to depress staff morale even to a greater extent than the current state of the nation . An observer experienced in life or in the managerial models might well call this case “The Donut Shop Style of Management “ or “A Tale of Managerial Skills and Expertise at a Local Donut Joint”
The only real break, and perhaps humor, that the participants / those been immolated had , was the recess taken to question and interview the concerned photographer of said event. This is an indication of the rapt attention being given to the all powerful “manager”
The manager can be spotted in the far left of the photo, blocking the escape exit of the volunteers at his “meeting” with his back to the wall / window.
This meeting is a weekly occurrence. Rain or shine, customer lineups or not this meeting is a weekly event. It’s all supposed to” smooth out the systems” and “pump up the staff”. Only in this case, it’s all about power, of a young manager type who can hold the troops at his attention for any length of time that he desires.
By the time this photo had been snapped, the “meeting” had been in progress for at least an hour and yet proceeded another full hour before being “wrapped up”.
A sad comment on the current state of management in our nation and the career opportunities afforded to our young people at big box chain type “customer service ” operations.
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