I'm sorry you don't recall the Pride events (plural) that happened in corporate within the last 30 days. Spinning for Diabetes is an event I did myself: because I cared. It's beyond fifteen minutes and is about a cause, not about work. Cradle To Crayons is an event of social responsibility that, although intense and stressful, rewards participants with a feeling of giving and caring... It's team-building and community-building at its best, so I'm also sorry you haven't been involved in it yet. (Seriously, it's awesome, you should find time in your "busy" day between meetings in your air conditioned conference rooms. Motz or Scala or Gordon-Demeo or Bussberg or Lang or Goggin won't look down upon you for it.)

Organizational Commitment Behaviors. Look it up. We need more of those in the FIELD, not just in Framingham.

Chef's Louie's costs as much as Wegmans and is better than the Dollar Store freezer options our employees have during the 30 minutes they're allotted to take lunch (because the law dictates as such, otherwise we probably wouldn't offer such devine relaxation.) And yes, people watch those TVs in the cafe. I challenge you to sit there for a half-day and watch... Especially during soccer events! Or maybe you should sit in the beautifully newly remodeled Link Floor 2 area, near Red Barn, to see how much work is really getting done.

Your suggestion to bring it up to HR would get someone fired. Because I KNOW it will. And I've SEEN it happen. So, for the folks reading this, do NOT go to HR. I just hope you have a manager that will fix it for you... Because the company WILL NOT. I'm sorry.

I appreciate your passion for the company. I do. I'm a cheerleader for the people who make UP the company. The field portion, that is. I hope you are kicking ass and taking names, defending us in the stores. We WOULD be more profitable if we felt more supported.

Best wishes to you!!