Social club uproar
nancyp
38 Posts
My employees are in an uproar right now. Let me explain..
Our company has a social club with 8 members on the board. Two of the eight are managers of the company. Right now they are in a dispute over tickets to the Colts game. The club bought out a block for 50 employees at $35.00 a ticket. Only members who pay dues are allowed 1 free ticket and if they want to bring a guest or two it would be the employees responsibility to pay for them. The vice president (1 of the managers in the club) found out other employees who had no intention of going to the game, signed up and was giving their ticket to someone else so they would not have to pay extra. He then made the social club members go around and ask each employee who signed up if they were truly going or giving their tickets away to someone else. This infuriated the employees and the other manager. They felt it was their ticket and they could do whatever they wanted to with it because they pay their weekly dues into this. Others thought it was unfair to the honest ones paying for their guest. Would just like your thoughts on this...
Our company has a social club with 8 members on the board. Two of the eight are managers of the company. Right now they are in a dispute over tickets to the Colts game. The club bought out a block for 50 employees at $35.00 a ticket. Only members who pay dues are allowed 1 free ticket and if they want to bring a guest or two it would be the employees responsibility to pay for them. The vice president (1 of the managers in the club) found out other employees who had no intention of going to the game, signed up and was giving their ticket to someone else so they would not have to pay extra. He then made the social club members go around and ask each employee who signed up if they were truly going or giving their tickets away to someone else. This infuriated the employees and the other manager. They felt it was their ticket and they could do whatever they wanted to with it because they pay their weekly dues into this. Others thought it was unfair to the honest ones paying for their guest. Would just like your thoughts on this...
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You should have nothing to do with it. Do not sanction it. Speak to the management members about keeping it outside of work, and talk to their boss if that is ineffective. This is not your company's problem.
Somehow, to me, it violates the spirit of the club. Certain "perks" or privileges are conferred on those who join and those "perks" or privileges should be used by the members, not given away to non-members. It just seems the ethical thing to do.
Kind of similar - our General Office used to have an annual picnic at Marine World, an animal/amusement park. We got free entry for ourselves and two extra tickets for family/friends, plus free lunch in a reserved area of the park. This was a very expensive venture. I didn't attend one year and some employees wanted my tickets to bring additional friends to the event. I said "no" because I felt it went against the intent of the president/CEO who footed the bill. I know in the above situation, the employees pay dues, but still feel wasn't the intent that they give away their perks.
Elizabeth
DO YOU SERVE PORK AT YOUR EVENTS, I KNOW WHERE WE CAN PICK UP A FEW ON HOOF READY FOR THE SPIT AND AT NO COST TO ANY MEMBER! OH HOW SWEET IS IS TO BE IN A SIMPLE OPERATING COMPANY THAT PAYS WELL AND EARNS BONUS MONEY OFTEN.
PORK
Count your blessings, and from reading your posts, I think you do.
Yes, we serve pork as one of our dishes for our company Thanksgiving feast. It is not free though.
Either way, it's nothing HR can or should be controlling. If the "social club" doesn't like it, then next time they should put some rules on the give away.
It's not quite the same thing, but each year we buy a block of tickets to two Diamondback games. Employees enter a raffle - if drawn they get two tickets for themselves and a guest. If they can't or don't want to go we ask them to give them back so we can draw another employee. But it doesn't always happen...I go to the game and don't recognize faces. Ask someone else if they do and I get, "Oh that's Robert's parents because he couldn't come."
>are giving their one free ticket to other members so they can take a
>guest without paying for the second ticket. Or are they giving them
>away to non-members? Or are they perhaps making a buck on the one
>free ticket?
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>Either way, it's nothing HR can or should be controlling. If the
>"social club" doesn't like it, then next time they should put some
>rules on the give away.
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>It's not quite the same thing, but each year we buy a block of tickets
>to two Diamondback games. Employees enter a raffle - if drawn they
>get two tickets for themselves and a guest. If they can't or don't
>want to go we ask them to give them back so we can draw another
>employee. But it doesn't always happen...I go to the game and don't
>recognize faces. Ask someone else if they do and I get, "Oh that's
>Robert's parents because he couldn't come."
For those bickering, please ask them about how much more time (beyond that already wasted) will be spent on this? We all hope they have bigger fish to fry than this especially if they're in a senior level position.
If this is your burden, then at least you now can help the club members decide on how they want this situation to be handled in the future. One thing we learned was to never pay 100% of any giveaway, picnic, dance, tickets, etc. At least when employees had to share in some of the cost, it slowed down the result your employees experienced. But it didn't eliminate it. Everyone eventually accepted the idea that tickets would be swapped around, and nobody could offer a solution.
P.S. I love Peyton Manning of the Colts, but the TENNESSEE TITANS RULE.