Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
We always reckon we have a 'Morale Officer' to make sure there is none, whose job is to penalise anyone smiling, or laughingOne of my fellow managers used to joke "You're smiling. That's stealing from the company". To give some context we had a pretty happy and able team so it was said in fun.
The other gag we had was "beatings will continue until morale improves" when the HR mandated morale survey went on. We did have to remind everyone that if we scored badly, IT folk being naturally prone to moaning, it would cause us managers a lot of hassle and no doubt they'd all be subject to HR sponsored jollity and improvement plans which none of us actually wanted. Fair enough real gripes, but keep a sense of proportion guys!
(as do Bullshire Police)