What do you do to bond and keep morale up in your Companies?

We have been playing Corn Hole for the last month and its a very addictive but fun game. Me and my employees have a competition every friday night after work. Its a pretty fierce battle between us all. During the 4th of july weekend I had all my employees over for a barbecue and corn hole tournament.

If you don’t play tell us what you do as an owner to bond with your employees or how you keep morale up in your company…

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I don’t do anything with employees after work. We see each other enough during the week. They get paid well. They know I’ll bend over backwards to work the schedule to allow them to get off for any school or sporting events their kids are in. I’ve flown some of them back home for kids events when we are working out of state. Their off time is theirs and mine is mine. I am pretty consistent about getting them off work by noon on Fridays. I learned long ago that money isn’t a morale booster.

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BBQ or dinner for birthdays. I’m very open with guys about the weekly targets and whether we hit them or not. If we hit target two weeks in a row we do a movie night, go hiking, etc. I don’t drink or smoke so I try to set a good example for my guys.

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I hear you on that. All my guys are 27-29 yrs old with no kids. We do not drink at the office when playing after work. But its cool to bond and joke with these kids to keep a close nit organization. I spend my time with my family during the week and all weekend.

I’m sure I’m set up different than most all my guys and girls are fireman except 1. We are all very close including our families. We do everything together including the yearly cruise. I would not have it any other way. I pay them well they show up on time, work hard all day. All of us would drop everything to help the other. They coined the phrase Firefighter4free because if we are not working we are always fixing each others house or doing charity work for someone. I guess I’m lucky

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Wish I could hire an employee. We’re not getting any younger, it’s taking a toll on us.

Im cornhole addict too. Racer doesnt wanna bond. He just lets me play with his dog and made me put a bandade on his ear when he had sun cancer removed.

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Oh are we talking about basal cell cancer? Here’s what the VA did to my ear, I have to go outside their system to get it reconstructed.

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Nasty stuff man makes me want to where a sun hat.

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Strippers…js!

I don’t have any employees but I did have my nephew come up and help on a big job. He wanted to shoot guns so that’s how I kept his morale up. That and lots of food lol