A Thanks Now And Again Helps

Odd day at work today. We had a small emergency on our hands today, nothing to major, someone just forgot to do something and it needed to be finished today. So we all pitched in, stayed a little later, worked hard, trough our breaks and lunch, and got it finnished. Afterwards, the bosses, who were nowhere to be found when the work needed to be done, came down and thanked all of us for helping.

Now it was nice that they at least acknowledged our hard work. Besides we really saved their butts today. The thing is in all the years I worked there, this was the first time any of them had thanked us for what we did.

It's not that I need to be thanked or rewarded for the work I do, even if it is above and beyond. Really all we did was what we ought to have done. We do the work because it is the right thing to do. Yet it nice to be acknowledged once and a while. And not just for the extraordinary things that we have to do at times. It is the little, everyday things that are important, and they are the ones that need to be acknowledged.

The funny thing is, the bosses wonder why morale is sometimes low at work. All they really care about is their bottom line. I used to have a boss that was the oposite of that. He used to come in with coffee every so often. He'd go up to someone at the end of the day and thank them for their work. He'd come around and talk and joke with us durring the day. I saw him not as my boss, but as my friend, and I would have gone to hell and back for him if he asked me to. It's a pity that more people aren't like him.