Do NOT prop the door open!!!

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Saw this sign when walking into work yesterday. Made me think about employee experience and how disconnected “corporate” guidelines can be from the front line.

A few thoughts came to mind:

1. The employees were given a task/requirement/goal but weren’t given the resources to do this without “breaking the rule“
2. The employees weren’t told “why” the rule was vitally important
3. “Management” doesn’t appear to care enough about the rule to audit or enforce it which leads employees to realize that it’s not important
4. A culture gets set up where employees think “corporate has no idea what we do” so they have to create ways to make things work for them “on the ground”
5. Perhaps if "management" had added a 4th exclamation point. Maybe then the rule would've worked. 😆