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How is your employer addressing employee stress and mental health?

Fortune 500 company. Was just told yesterday the service center I'm out of is one of 20 that is being closed/sold/partnered off. All thru this we were 'essential to business' and working as normal and even got raises.

So they've got that going on for stress management.
 
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I work in big legacy tech (server clusters), we got bought by a bigger tech company last year. Now enter Covid 19, sales went to shit, stock price went to shit, and they are cutting heads like crazy including my position in the former small tech company. fugg, but whatever. Last year we blew away our goals by a big margin, big bonuses, this year has been just bad. People are pretty stressed in general. I might just take a break and get into doing what I do in the cloud on AWS.
 
FleshEater said:
I had an employee get angry and start ranting when I asked them to sign a B.S. form stating that they'll monitor they're own health, by taking their temps, blah, blah, blah. l explained to him it's just to appease HR, and I really don't care if he does it or not. This whole thing is getting tiresome, and we're all sick of it.

He was laughing before leaving. But seriously, enough is enough.

So, at work, everyone is more or less tired of the bullshit, and carrying on like normal.
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Was he angry he had to sign something or angry because you can't spell their?
 
Working as an assistant manager at Lowes for 12 years that shit level of stress nearly killed me. Been gone 2 years still trying to adapt to the you are not in charge don't take the responsibility upon yourself to solve the problem. Which is what I had to do at lowes for my job and a rotation of 145 employees with about half on clock during my days nights mids weekends overnights not having a fucking clue how to live life because I couldn't past 2 weeks. And even that shit wasn't promised. So 70 employee personalities delivery truck planning daily, incoming freight trucks, 200+ customer floor traffic, internal /external 100+ phone calls, managing front end of cashiers, customer issues, cash offices, scheduling my primary 8 departments of 24 in the store. Los prevention. And filling in for lunch of employees or call outs, and training and lets not forget turnover. And commercial and international construction fullfilments and housekeeping. I just laugh when anyone here feels under pressure. For almost 5 years I did this while working part time at current employer who is also a family friend but that is of course after hours. Work is work bullshit is after work.
 
I don’t know. I never go to the shop. I do my job on my job sites and turn in my reports, stress is not a thing for me.
 
We telework every other day. It has its benefits, but brings its own stress and anxiety. I'm ready for full on normal again.
 
Two of the employees who quit listed "supervisor is a Trump supporter" as a reason.

The one person who almost quit, and likely will, over a coworker showing them a racial meme. Both parties are white guys. The twist here is the offended person created and sent a homo' themed colonoscopy meme to another guy a couple weeks ago. Apparently the offended employee had become woke about racism and white privilege (not long after the colonoscopy meme) and is working to correct his past behavior. But he didn't tell anyone to leave him out of shop hi-jinx. It's middle school all over again, but with middle-aged men.
 
Can’t buy real masks or respirator refills so I have been unable to do my job as a home inspector, not to mention our governor basically discouraged any outside interaction in real estate transactions. So I have been driving 100+ miles a day to commute for work, impersonating a carpenter again, the money is good. So before the mandatory mask law we had daycare lined up so I could get back to working. Well now that I am working I am no longer “social distancing” in their eyes so they wont watch the lids unless the kids wear masks all day.

Count me in the fucking DONE with it category. I have heard talk from a lot of people about lines being drawn with businesses, aka not supporting any business that requires a mask, I am in this court and hope the others stay their as well. Fuck any business that will not stand up for the constitution.
 
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Eman Resu said:
Two of the employees who quit listed "supervisor is a Trump supporter" as a reason.
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Let those idiots quit if real life hurts their feelers. Seriously, I don't understand this delicate snowflake bullshit.

Maybe the fact that we were shut down for only 2 days is skewing my view because neither I nor any of my coworkers spent time at home collecting socialist breadcrumbs while having terror skullfucked into their heads by CNN or MSNBC. Everyone at my workplace is no more fragile than they were before some asshole ate an undercooked bat.

Tell everyone you "self-identify" as completely over all the hypersensitive pussy bullshit, and they're micro-agressing you if they don't just pull their panties up & deal with life like fuggin' adults. Seriously, when did we become a nation of such pussies? Fawkin' sad.


EDIT: which Massengil factory do you work at? :flipoff2:
 
As of Monday as soon as you walk in the door at work you are handed a blue surgical mask and can’t take it off unless you are eating lunch. It has definitely has killed moral and all desire to be there. I don’t want to spend money outside of work in case I do get laid off. So yeah I’m ready to be done with this shit
 
Not much besides sending out emails reminding employees about mental health benefits. Almost everyone besides the executive staff in our HQ office (where I work) have been working from home since mid March. I have only been in the office a handful of times for a few hours at a time since march 17th. I've been working from home since then. There isn't a lot with regard to my work duties I can't do from home, so I'm not stressed at all. In fact, i've been living relatively stress free when you consider that I haven't been commuting in traffic every day.
 
Wheelerfreak said:
There is nothing being done. We just started back up this week after a four month layoff, so there’s no stress yet that I’ve seen. Most of the instructors are former military with time in the ME and we are working on a military base training service members that many have time in the ME or other deployments, so this shit is stress free compared to that.
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That’s funny! Had a military chaplain/trained psychiatrist give an indoc briefing at Ft Meade when I transferred there (late 1990s). His part of the briefing time, he administered a “stress questionnaire”. At the end, he asked “how many of you feel stressed to the point you can’t take much more?” No one raised their hand.
Then he said that the average person feeling completely stressed and unable to take any more without help would have “x” score (think it was like 25 or so). The minimum score in the room of about 20 military was about ten points higher, mine was significantly higher than that. Yet we all accepted it as “normal”.
 
zlathim said:
Not much besides sending out emails reminding employees about mental health benefits. Almost everyone besides the executive staff in our HQ office (where I work) have been working from home since mid March. I have only been in the office a handful of times for a few hours at a time since march 17th. I've been working from home since then. There isn't a lot with regard to my work duties I can't do from home, so I'm not stressed at all. In fact, i've been living relatively stress free when you consider that I haven't been commuting in traffic every day.
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The work from home thing is becoming a sore spot for many at my place. In one arena you have the work at home managers/supervisors questioning the productivity of their work at home staff. Meanwhile in the other arena, the work on site people are absolutely fed-up with doing the bidding of the work at home people who, apparently, are too terrified to visit the office. Just another new thing that adds to the weight of it all.
 
our CEO shut the company down for a day... globally. Told people to cancel all meetings and disconnect... and spend time with family.

My boss does a virtual happy hour every other week with the team - not allowed to talk work. Everyone in my leadership team has told us to focus on our family - take whatever time we need. There's of course, still a business to run....IIRC, we have an additional 3-4 days of PTO as well.
 
rockota said:
our CEO shut the company down for a day... globally. Told people to cancel all meetings and disconnect... and spend time with family.

My boss does a virtual happy hour every other week with the team - not allowed to talk work. Everyone in my leadership team has told us to focus on our family - take whatever time we need. There's of course, still a business to run....IIRC, we have an additional 3-4 days of PTO as well.
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That is badass. Kudos to your company.
 
Absolutely nothing.
We are still out there delivering (considered essential) just like we did in March going forward.
Workload keeps increasing as people are buying more and more, got to spend that Trump money...

When I want for my boss to walk away, I just ask about $$ considering none of us have seen raise/bonus/anything other than standard pay.

Staying put at the moment, as with the current state of the economy it is anyones guess what will take place come August/September.
 
surpip said:
Was he angry he had to sign something or angry because you can't spell their?
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Some of you on here are overly pedantic. I'm on an iPad...:flipoff2:

I'm good at grammar and spelling, just don't give much of a damn on Irate.
 
Do not ask question the "Safety" lady . Just sign the fuckin sheet every morning so they do not call. We are all going to die from china shit.
 
They stopped asking us every morning if we, or anyone we knew, were sick, or if we had been out of the country in the last 14 days. They also bought some soap, and gave us hot water to wash our hands with, so that was nice.
 
They are not, I am managing their stress.

My boss is in the hospital( has some serious health issues and is waiting on a transplant)so I did what I always do. Picked up his tasks and delegated what I could to my staff.

Days are a bit longer, but I'm keeping shit running and they appreciate that. This is the first time that they actually reached out and offered me more money though, so that's cool. I dont expect it, cause I like where I work, it's close to home and other than a few shitty employees taking more time than all the good ones, it's a great place to work.

edit: oh, and in discussions of how they are going to compensate me, I let them know shit rolls down hill and I couldn't do it without the people who work for me. They need to figure that out before they pay me.
 
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My employer, nothing really. Put some masks on the table for anyone that wants to wear them and told everyone "if you want to, you can work from home." You know what happens when a boss say "if you want" - only the people with balls went home, me included.

The people I employ: work from home anyhow already. No nothing to do.
 
Squamch said:
They also bought some soap, and gave us hot water to wash our hands with, so that was nice.
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The ladies here are all pissed because there's no automatic dispensers. The manual ones you squirt and clean your hands immediately after. What's the big deal? :confused:
 
woods said:
The ladies here are all pissed because there's no automatic dispensers. The manual ones you squirt and clean your hands immediately after. What's the big deal? :confused:
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Touch points being a transmission method has everyone so freaked out. We just got hand sanitizer back in the porta potties too!
 
Same thing we have always done. Hire adults and tell them to handle their shit. We have always offered I think 3 free counseling sessions year with a call to an 800 number as well as covered addiction recovery.
 
I work for a international privately owned company. 2 years ago they instituted unlimited PTO. So basically get your job done and take as much time off as you want.
 
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