Roger Tuckerman Emails

Three Ways to Improve Employee Morale

Christopher Lindsayby
18 Comments on Three Ways to Improve Employee Morale
Roger Tuckerman tells his boss how to improve employee morale.

employee morale

From: tuckermanroger@gmail.com
To: michael@abcdbookstore.com
Subject: Employee morale

Dear Mike,

Morale is very low among the 25 part-time employees at your store. Doug told me, and I told it to everyone else. The new hires didn’t know how bad of a place it is to work, but they all know it now!

I would like to recommend three ways you can improve employee morale:

First, if a staff member doesn’t like coming to work, and the store is slow, they should be able to go home early—with pay. If you let the negative, unhappy workers go home, and pay them for not working, they will be happy and positive!

A second way to improve employee morale is no more three-strikes-rule for showing up late. If a staff member is 10 minutes late, it will no longer be counted as a strike.

By not requiring staff to show up on time, you won’t have to suspend anyone for a week, which has been very bad for employee morale.

A third way to improve morale is if a staff member doesn’t like a task that you give them, e.g., shelving books, or greeting customers, a co-worker of their choice should be forced to do it.

Nothing creates more job satisfaction than when you can give a task you don’t like to a co-worker, especially if you don’t like that co-worker!

I hope you will implement these three policies immediately. If you do, I guarantee all of your staff will love coming to work. And that means you won’t have to fire anyone like you fired me!

It’s easy to improve employee morale! All you have to do is lower the expectations you have of the employees.

Sincerely,

Roger Tuckerman

P.S. If these policies improve employee morale, would you consider hiring me back?

Published in Letters from a Madman

18 comments

  11. Someone told me that you have to make $50 in purchases a year in order to be able to post a review on Amazon.ca

    Perhaps that is the case with Amazon.com as well.

    If you are a regular customer on a different Amazon site, you might have better success there.

    Do you shop on Amazon.co.uk?

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  18. Clearly, Roger has a brilliant future as a leftist politician. He’s missing his calling by trying to retain his job at the book store.

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