Now, wait a minute!

 

We start to see around some claims about HP employees’ morale reaching new lows…

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HP-Employee-Morale-Hits-New-siliconalley-803856163.html?x=0&.v=5

Well, though the sample is quite limited so far in terms of the number of employees that have responded to the “request for feedback”, as well there is a significant time constraint: Léo Apotheker has not yet formally started in his new job.

It seems to us pretty unfair to even dare to publish verbatim the feedback of just a couple of individuals.

This is not meaning that these two chaps are not right in the long run… just that it is too risky an assertion to have it as the basis for a conclusion that is highlighted in the headline.

We know of people who have known of much better days at HP years ago. We do as well. And though the reasons for the changes within the HP world can be thoroughly and passionately discussed, we believe any single employee from this relevant company should consider several things before just letting the first feelings that pop up in their minds reach the email of a journalist that just needs to fill up his words’ quota.

Of course this about letting time pass, and judge after having had some perspective. At the same time, newcomers should be allowed the time to start and show what their plans are.

But probably the most important thing is that employees themselves should try to avoid this feeling of “over-protection” they sometimes too much seem to expect from the company they work for. Even if this was a feeling that came as a consequence of former Management’s attitude and manners. Even if “employee-protection” was a motto in the past, this does not really entitle anybody to assume that the company he or she works for is really obliged to the employee beyond a certain limit. It is the responsibility of that employee to care for himself. As much as he would not allow the company to tell him or her what to do with his salary once he or she has earned it, right?

And while they let newcomers develop their plans, and while time provides a better judgment, it is the employees obligation to support his company as much as he or she is able to precisely to make sure that the company will later provide for him.

Sounds too Kennedy-an, doesn’t it? “It’s not what your country can do for you…”, some veterans might recall…

Well, that might very well be the problem of our times… people in the basis of families, companies, or any other organization, that just limit themselves to milk a cow they think they have been born with the right to milk.

Once these guys do this… then they will earn the right to say whatever they feel like about managers, companies and even the rest of the world.