Originally Posted by Bart
Talk about "not kidding." There's a thing called employee morale. May be foreign to you, but it actually helps improves the work place if done correctly. Nothing wrong with recognizing good employees, and it's money well-spent. I'm curious if you would have the same smart-... comments if "tsa" weren't part of tsadude's handle or if you're just taking pot-shots because you know he's a TSA employee.
There are very few things I take for granted. And when it comes to true identities of people on the internet, no way (your TSA colleague eyecue has questioned whether I even live in Denver). That's not a comment toward whoever TSAscrener might be. And he/she probably is a TSA screener -- I don't care, but in this day and age, it would require seeing someone in person to make me believe who they say they are on the internet.
And I am serious about the awards things. I do not see how a $5 coffee mug improves a morale. If the TSA was serious on improving employee morale, I would suggest a bulk purchase of
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie for everyone at team leader upward. This way, you treat EVERYONE with the respect they deserve and you might actually get more people who would look forward to their job, rather than thinking a $5 coffee mug is going to a suitable replacement for better morale and common decency.
If you want to position my feelings as being of a "pot-shot artist," then go right ahead. But to me, things pointed out in the book that can be applied 365 days a year rather than annual or bi-anuual awarding of a coffee mug.