On pizza parties and crystal clocks
Gratitude is meaningless without the actions to back it up.
Every year, on the first Friday of March, companies across America remember that their employees exist.
Employee Appreciation Day arrives, even though nobody asked for it — complete with a catered lunch that has no gluten-free options, a mass email from an executive who could pick maybe three staff members out of a lineup, and company-branded merch that invariably will wind up in the donation bin at Goodwill.
HR checks the box.
Leadership feels good about themselves.
And everyone goes home feeling roughly the same as they did the day before, except now there's a tote bag and a coffee mug involved.
Friends, these are not expressions of real gratitude. They're gratitude-shaped activities.
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