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Miami CEO "Just because of hurricane doesn't mean you cant work 40 hours this week"
Posted on 9/30/22 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 9/30/22 at 10:50 pm
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Postcardmania, a postcard marketing company, has a 69,000-plus-square-foot main campus in Clearwater. Clearwater declared a state of emergency Tuesday, and Pinellas County began issuing evacuation orders Monday. Hurricane Ian could be the strongest hurricane to hit the Tampa area in more than 100 years.
But in various communications to employees Monday, the company insisted that the media was overhyping Hurricane Ian—which is expected to make landfall in Florida Wednesday with 155 mph winds after leaving the entire nation of Cuba without power—and that employees were still expected to work through potential disaster, even if that meant bringing their families to the office.
“If you want to leave your home and you’re being told to leave your home, and you feel like you should and you have no place to go, PCM [Postcardmania] is probably the safest place to be in Florida,” CEO Joy Gendusa told employees during a Monday Zoom call, according to a copy of minutes from a staff meeting obtained by VICE News. “Anyway, bring your pets, bring your kids, bring everybody to PCM.”
“Obviously you feeling safe and comfortable is of the utmost importance, but I honestly want to continue to deliver and I want to have a good end of quarter,” Gendusa added. “And when [the hurricane] turns into nothing, I don’t want it to be like, ‘Great, we all stopped producing because of the media and the maybe that it was going to be terrible.’”
An automated text from the company sent to employees also said: “PCM was built to withstand Cat[egory] 5 winds. We would like to continue to service our National clients if we can. Bring your kids to work on Tues and Wed this week.”
The texts also included a message from Gendusa: “There is always more hype in the media than any storm that has ever hit here…bring your pets if you feel teh [sic] need. I doubt in the end you will really need to. We are not closing, we are working.
"We’ll make it super fun for the kids!”
Postcardmania, a postcard marketing company, has a 69,000-plus-square-foot main campus in Clearwater. Clearwater declared a state of emergency Tuesday, and Pinellas County began issuing evacuation orders Monday. Hurricane Ian could be the strongest hurricane to hit the Tampa area in more than 100 years.
But in various communications to employees Monday, the company insisted that the media was overhyping Hurricane Ian—which is expected to make landfall in Florida Wednesday with 155 mph winds after leaving the entire nation of Cuba without power—and that employees were still expected to work through potential disaster, even if that meant bringing their families to the office.
“If you want to leave your home and you’re being told to leave your home, and you feel like you should and you have no place to go, PCM [Postcardmania] is probably the safest place to be in Florida,” CEO Joy Gendusa told employees during a Monday Zoom call, according to a copy of minutes from a staff meeting obtained by VICE News. “Anyway, bring your pets, bring your kids, bring everybody to PCM.”
“Obviously you feeling safe and comfortable is of the utmost importance, but I honestly want to continue to deliver and I want to have a good end of quarter,” Gendusa added. “And when [the hurricane] turns into nothing, I don’t want it to be like, ‘Great, we all stopped producing because of the media and the maybe that it was going to be terrible.’”
An automated text from the company sent to employees also said: “PCM was built to withstand Cat[egory] 5 winds. We would like to continue to service our National clients if we can. Bring your kids to work on Tues and Wed this week.”
The texts also included a message from Gendusa: “There is always more hype in the media than any storm that has ever hit here…bring your pets if you feel teh [sic] need. I doubt in the end you will really need to. We are not closing, we are working.
"We’ll make it super fun for the kids!”
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Posted on 9/30/22 at 10:54 pm to Eurocat
Typical lib, always looking for an excuse not to work. For shame Euro!
Posted on 9/30/22 at 10:54 pm to Eurocat
Nothing wrong with amoral businessmen.
Posted on 9/30/22 at 10:55 pm to Eurocat
Well then CEO how about you stay with the employees in the building while a hurricane is happening outside?
Posted on 9/30/22 at 11:06 pm to Eurocat
A safe, free place to stay with loved ones and pets without having to pop for a hotel or fight evacuation traffic?
Sign me up. I won't mind drafting an email or two.
Sign me up. I won't mind drafting an email or two.
Posted on 9/30/22 at 11:07 pm to Eurocat
What a psycho.
Posted on 9/30/22 at 11:11 pm to Eurocat
quote:
bring your pets
Awesome. I will be there with you my cat named Stinky.
Posted on 9/30/22 at 11:51 pm to LRB1967
Plenty plant baws worked through hurricanes locked in.
I'm on a list to ride out. Haven't had to yet but had to return and work like crazy to get shite back up running.
Especially the power generation units.
I'm on a list to ride out. Haven't had to yet but had to return and work like crazy to get shite back up running.
Especially the power generation units.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 12:02 am to Eurocat
She is a Scientologist. They all cray cray.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 12:10 am to Eurocat
quote:
“And when [the hurricane] turns into nothing
I agree with her....... IF the hurricane turned out to be NOTHING. Why stay home for a week if there was no real damage and electricity is still up and running?
This post was edited on 10/1/22 at 12:11 am
Posted on 10/1/22 at 1:03 am to Eurocat
It’s postcards. This isn’t a big deal . Have some compassion
Not exactly a business the American economy is depending on
It can wait a few days or weeks
Not exactly a business the American economy is depending on
It can wait a few days or weeks
Posted on 10/1/22 at 1:21 am to Eurocat
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Obviously you feeling safe and comfortable is of the utmost importance, but I honestly want to continue to deliver and I want to have a good end of quarter
This is all that matters. You have to be a degree of a sociopath and a narcissist to stab everyone else in the back as you climb the ladder. People like that have no empathy for our fellow humans and it shows in times like this.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 2:19 am to Eurocat
Their ESG score about to go down the toilet. 
Posted on 10/1/22 at 3:10 am to Eurocat
We hung around my office/warehouse when Andrew came through. We started off being in a safe place to ride out the storm. We end up working. Figured we were here anyway. Guess they got that detail out up front.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 4:06 am to Eurocat
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Miami CEO
quote:Yes, the CEO screwed up. So did residents who sheltered in place on Sanibel Island. The difference is, she was actually offering her employees and their families a safe haven from the storm. Right?
"Just because of hurricane doesn't mean you cant work 40 hours this week"
And now she's given over her facility as a hurricane shelter for area residents. Right?
So here we have a top 3% Tampa-area workplace according to employee surveys. Once again, a TOP 3% workplace according to employees! The CEO makes some dumb remarks, and Jonah Furman a communist organizer picks them up. What is incredible (and unsettling) is the amplification the media IMMEDIATELY allotted to this communist POS who is simply attempting to cancel a non-union work model.
quote:The business tech says even if there are things outside of your control, you’re responsible for your work, so you have to do something to fix it.
The company that Gendusa founded in 1998 has grown to make about $50 million each year and employ 300 people in the Tampa Bay area. PostcardMania has about 73,000 customers in 350 industries and it was ranked 12th among the top midsized companies to work at in Tampa Bay for 2022's Tampa Bay Times Top Workplaces.
PostcardMania’s focus on productivity and statistics, even in the face of a natural disaster, is reflective of its use of a business management system tied to Scientology, where Gendusa is a longtime member. While the company discloses its use of the system to employees upfront, describing it as a secular tool or “technology” created by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the implications are not always clear to staff until they are inside.
Being responsible for your work is of course anathema to Jonah Furman who'd prefer penis envy rather than productivity to guide remuneration.
THAT, rather than any stay at home or evacuate order is what this is about. Never let a crisis go to waste.
This post was edited on 10/1/22 at 4:07 am
Posted on 10/1/22 at 4:33 am to Eurocat
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because of the media
You see what a shitty media does?
Nobody trusts them.
That can cause life to be lost.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 5:54 am to dchog
quote:I think she did. That was her point about safety of the shelter.
Well then CEO how about you stay with the employees in the building while a hurricane is happening outside?
Posted on 10/1/22 at 6:37 am to Eurocat
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A high school dropout, she says that all of her business acumen is self-taught. Its primary source: a 12-volume series containing a full management methodology, authored by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. In addition to founding the religion, Mr. Hubbard researched and wrote on how organizations of any kind can operate successfully and prosper. Gendusa says, “I studied a lot of Mr. Hubbard’s writings on administration and management, where I learned things and then applied them in practical ways to my life and, secularly, to my business.” Of her 200 staff members, she estimates that 50 are Scientologists, with the remainder a mixture of many different faiths. Gendusa is a strong critic of any kind of discrimination, something she attributes to her Jewish background.
Posted on 10/1/22 at 6:40 am to Eurocat
quote:
The storm — which has already left the entire nation of Cuba without electricity —
Stopped reading here….
Posted on 10/1/22 at 8:59 am to Eurocat
quote:Any major executive that uses the phrase, "I don’t want it to be like," when addressing the entire company, is gonna have more problems than just this one!
“And when [the hurricane] turns into nothing, "I don't want it to be like" ‘Great, we all stopped producing because of the media and the maybe that it was going to be terrible.’”
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