Workplace

Well this is something we feel the real nature of a good or bad working enviroment.
The workplace should be where business takes place, not a war zone. Yet many times workers are at odds with co-workers; those on a low rung of the company ladder feel mistreated by those on the top rungs; some workers waste time and raise blood pressures of others with soliciting funds for numerous reasons; some people use the time of others to visit or gossip, causing a loss of productivity and frustration on the part of the person trying to work.
Some things can be 'fixed' only by a person changing employment, but some companies and people have found solutions for a few problems. Guidelines written by a panel of employees and management decided what gifts would be given when. When an member of the company married, a present went from all the business (owners could and often did send something privately as did close friends); the birth of a child received the same kind of major gift. If an employee or close family member died, a plant or flowers was sent. Everything that required a gift or flowers or plants was covered. Solicitations weren't discouraged; they were prohibited.
If an employee's child needed to raise money for school, catalogues and brochures could be left on one table in the break room, but parents could not contact any one directly. Someone interested could and would place an order and leave it in the parent's mail box.
What if the time-stealer is a supervisor, though? Then hopefully the invitation to visit at lunch or on break, when used multiple times, will give the supervisor the idea that the employee really does want to work.
However, at times the only solution for finding peace in the workplace, rather than starting a war, is to move on to other employment.What you think?Life goes on.GOT IT!