Hi, I’m Marian Madonia. I started writing about the Garbage Factor™ because I read that nearly 80% of American’s hate their jobs. I think that’s insane. We spend 40-50 hours a week at work and probably less than 10 hours a week with the person we care most about and for 80% of us, that 40-50 hours is spent in misery. I’ve been one of those people. Statistically, the odds are good that you are too. And even though the statistics I have are based on an American study, from the feedback I’ve gotten from folks in other countries, this is a worldwide problem.
Companies today talk more and more about “employee engagement.” What they are not talking about is the GarbageFactor™ that exists in most organizations and that the GarbageFactor™ is the primary reason that employee engagement suffers. Throw all the plans and systems you want at employees. It’s time management and leadership looks at themselves in the mirror to figure out what they are doing individually and collectively to contribute to a loss of employee engagement.
Over my career, I’ve been collecting those complaints and I’m going to tell those stories here. If management wants change, the solution is simple: Stop dumping garbage on your people.
So my passion is to eliminate the GarbageFactor ™ from the workplace. I plan to write about the GarbageFactor™, what it looks like, the damage it does, and how to overcome it.
If you’re an employee who looks at your paycheck and thinks ”this situation is really not worth putting up with this garbage,” drop me a comment. Or if you like, send me a note and tell me your story. I’ll do what I can to get it into one of my next blogs. But if you have live audio or video of a really bad boss, you’ll move up to the top of the list.
Garbage happens and Garbage matters. I’m Marian Madonia, and together, we’ll all eliminate the GarbageFactor™ from the workplace, or we’ll find a new workplace.
