The Suggestion Box

A few months ago, someone had the tremendous idea to put an anonymous suggestion box on the corporate intranet at my work. You'd think this would be awesome; a place for people to put constructive ideas about improving the company. Well if that's what you thought, you'd be wrong. Instead of using the box as a place to make useful suggestions, our employees are using it as a sounding board for things they dislike. It's also used as place to make outlandish requests that they don't have the balls to ask for with their name attached to them.

Here's an example of the nonsense that I am talking about. Someone suggested that we put coat hooks in the bathroom outside of the ones already on the back of the stall door so they didn't have to bring their coat into the stall with them. The response in the suggestion box was that the suggestion was not being filled because of cost concerns. My unofficial response....Hello, this isn't your fucking house where every whim can be filled because you feel like it. If you don't want to bring you jacket with you into the stall, don't bring it into the bathroom. I'm still not sure why anyone brings their jacket into the bathroom anyway. Maybe they like to hit the crapper right before the long drive home. Who knows. My first suggestion for the suggestion box is going to be that we call it the "idiotic idea box" so that at least we are being truthful about it's use.