Your Grandma Should Have Died In The Off-Season
11.09.2007 | Chris Bailey | Focused on Work
Update 11.10.07: Sanity prevails…the Vikings decide that a funeral for a dead grandmother is actually more important than a football game (link via ESPN)
Most employers actually care about their employees when a loved one dies…which is why the owner of the Minnesota Vikings should immediately pull his head from his posterior and see the stupidity of his ways. (link via SportingNews.com)
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Oh my. It’s one of those employer decisions that makes you shake your head in dismay. What were they thinking?!
Tammy, apparently they recognized their ignorance and gave Troy Williamson his game check. But still…it took a gang of veteran players pleading his case to get the coach and management to change their minds. Here’s a question: if your company decided that work was more important than a family death, how much longer would you be there?
Chris – Exactly! Only as long as it took to find a new gig. Or longer if I couldn’t…but then I’d be one unhappy employee. The Millennial generation isn’t going to put up with that kind of thing.
It’s a give and take team effort between employer and employee these days isn’t it? (or it should be!), I’d be out of the door like a shot!!!
Tammy and Keiron, and not only are folks going to bolt…they’re going to be more likely to tell their colleagues (and the media might help them) about the workplace policies. If you heard stories about this type of thing, wouldn’t you be a bit reluctant to work there?
In this case, the Vikings brass reversed their decision, but it calls into account their attitudes toward players and employees, doesn’t it?
Oh definitely – not a place you’d recommend to colleagues and friends, although I think most people would be reluctant to recommend a lot of companies they work for these days due to various policies!
Google probably have some of the best attitudes to their employees I’ve heard of.