One more happening over the past week deserves a separate entry. Our entire workspace was examined in detail this week against the possibility that the President of Canada Post, Moira Greene, would visit our premises. The fact that portions of the building were repainted in the last two weeks may or may not have been coincidental. The rearranging of office furniture, revamping several work areas, disposal of stock that we haven’t used in years, cleaning up of anything that wasn’t being used, checking that notice boards were up to date, re-activation of useless tasks, and generalized housekeeping was not. Guess who got to do a great deal of this labour?
As it turns out she did visit our sister office and to her credit declared she didn’t want to spend time with supervisors—they were invited to command performance meet and greet seminars earlier this year—but spent all her time meeting rank and file workers and spent considerable time doing it. Guess one has to respect a corporate officer who feels the need to understand the needs of the workers she employs, though I doubt she’ll volunteer to walk 12 miles in 100º F heat delivering mail.
So the “Queen” failed to arrive though the threat of same did serve to get things done that had needed doing for several years. Too bad it takes a threat such as this to motivate supervisors to act.
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