Managers: What is wrong with me prohibiting flower and candy deliveries to my employees?

Did I do something wrong? This is a place of business and not a social gathering. My boss has backed me up 100%. We were inundated today with stupid V-Day flower and candy deliveries to employees and quite frankly my boss and I are sick of it. I wrote the prohibition memo and both my boss and I signed it and it has been posted. Employees are kind of upset but I don't care!!! This is a business. Do your social crap somewhere else. Not on my time.

Managers: What is wrong with me prohibiting flower and candy deliveries to my employees?
You haven't had a girlfriend since the millenium, have you?





Table ready for "bitter", party of one.....
Reply:You guys are pathetic. Its only 1 day a year.


Get over it, its not like your losing hundreds of dollars because of it. It makes the work environment much better and a good palce to be. If you piss off your workers they wont work as well. You may think its a bad thing but its actually a good thing. Happy workers = money. Mad workers = loss of money.
Reply:what type of business?
Reply:eww, u suck....its just 1 day, just because you dont have a valentine doesnt mean you need to ruin everyone else's day.
Reply:How would you like to work for you?


Also, you should leave your personal problems at home. We know that you are steamed because you have no social life or Valentine of your own. I bet that you got ZERO flowers or candy.
Reply:I am sorry i dont like Valentines day either and i get mad when i see someone else getting something. BUT if my boss did that i would quit only because some people that is the only way they get there gifts because if they are at work all day then they can not get it at home because noone is there. My boyfriend is in the military and he is not gone now but if he was to be overseas and my boss did that i would have to tell him off only because my husband or boyfriend is fighting over there for u to put a mean azz sign like that up!!!
Reply:kind of kills the self motivation around work. If you don't have to deliver the flowers to the office and you don't have to answer the door then it is not hurting you. If in fact you are being put out by this then state the reason don't just say no
Reply:you can't really control what someone outside your company sends to your employees, can you? unless next year you plan on hiring a security guard to stand at the door and send away all the flowers. then the senders will prolly be charged despite the fact the flowers didn't reach the recipient, and they'll be peeved. not that you care, but if it destroys your 'ees morale, you pretty much suck as a boss.
Reply:wow you're a dick. Valentine's is one day a year, seriously why do you have to act that way.
Reply:gee...you must be single and have been for a long time...you bitter old koot!!!...... ;0)...really it depends on the business.....hey!! Happy Valentine's Day!!!!
Reply:Don't do that. Then you will not only have to ban deliveries on V-Day but every other day as well. What if some people have their shipments sent to their work address? Is that so wrong?? Have you no sympathy? Just because YOU and YOUR BOSS don't get anything, doesn't mean you have to ruin everyone else's day too.
Reply:Yes, you did something wrong. You de-personalized your personnel.
Reply:Obviously you don't have a significant other...if you did, you would not be so jacked-up about employees receiving tokens of affection from THEIR loved ones!





Chill out and stop being such a jack-***....and hope you don't encounter any of your co-workers in a dark alley.
Reply:Don't be mad because nobody sent you anything!! You sound sooo bitter, what a loser!








All your employees probably hate you now! You better watch your coffee buddy!
Reply:If someone sends one of your employees flowers it isn't their fault. They didn't order it. Just because you are sad that none of the flowers or candy are going to you doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone else. Grow up
Reply:Ha Ha very funny! I can't believe people on here are buying your B.S.
Reply:Dude------lighten up...............have a Bloody Mary and meet me at Spahrs tomorrow AM!!!!!!
Reply:You didn't get anything did you? and you wonder why
Reply:OMG you must be soul less! LOL
Reply:I don't believe that you did all that much wrong, although I can see the other side of the issue. If this is something that has gone on for years, then this noticed should have been sent out before now so that the employees would tell their friends and relatives not to send them to the work place. Had they known ahead of time, granted there still may have been a little backwash but at least the employees would have been prepared. Waiting until the day of valentine's day and get angry about it then is like closing the barn door after the horse gets out.
Reply:Man oh Man YOU are such a witch and that's saying it mildly !!! I am so glad there are not others like you...My husband has his own business, his secretary's work really hard all day sometimes don't even get lunches, not to mention the times they come in early to get extra things done!! They never call in sick unless there is a death in family . These girls are hard workers also got ALOT OF FLOWERS AND CANDY from contractors my husband deals with 24-7 and he got them candy and lunch !!! He has a big heart unlike YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...


BET YOU DON"T POST THIS UP FOR EMPLOYEES


BUT I WILL POST IT IN HUSBANDS OFFICE TOMORROW!!!!!!
Reply:Way to kill moral, I know I wouldnt work for you.
Reply:You are the kind of boss everyone hates! Be human, we spend the majority of our lives at work, working for creeps like you and if you can't understand that and have no people skills, you are doing your business no good. Lighten up, @sshole!
Reply:Wow... what a drag it must be to work for you and the company you work for!





You should keep in mind that a happy worker is a more productive worker. By preventing these things to occur (a couple of times a year) you are not only preventing some joy and excitement into a normally dreary work space but you are also making people there upset about the rules. You have taken an non-chearful work environment and made it twice as bad.





I suggest you reasses your poor attitude about social interactions (a workplace is a social environment after all) and recant this latest "prohibition mem". I bet that if you make the work place more enjoyable you will find not only will your employees be more productive but they will be willing to help the company succeed.





Don't forget... a company with no employees are just a bunch of desk, chairs and paper.... the employees are your most valuable asset. Aggravating your most valuable asset isn't a good thing.





Hope this helps!
Reply:Because that is lame. It's only one day out of the year. You and your boss probably don't have anyone special in your lives, so you want to make sure you can kill a joy wherever you can. That is ridiculous. You sound like a real loser to me.
Reply:You're horrible.....it's ONE day out of the year...come on!
Reply:no one should be getting anything personal delivered to them at work, BUT you cant just type up a letter banning deliveries and stick up THAT day. if it was such a issue with and your supervisor then you should have posted something last week...
Reply:whoaa sounds like someone's without a valentine today.
Reply:THAT IS THE DUMBEST THING YOU CAN DO. IS IT BECAUSE YOU'RE LACKING A VALENTINE THAT YOU'RE BITTER?
Reply:There's nothing wrong with that-you are the boss. If they give you too much smack, then tell the employees that it violates some sort of health code.
Reply:they could have easily had them deliverd to theri home