Does the place your employed at, have a mission statment

[ronandannette]

Sure does - in fact, I can proudly recite them from every company I've worked for:

"Blah...blah...blah...blah..blah, achieved through yadda, yadda yadda, with the ultimate goal of <insert favorite overused business jargon here>.

We’ve got a long, flowery, official one like that too. It’s our unofficial one, that can be recited instantly by any employee, that we live by:
Build it right; fix it right.

 

[amcnj]

Yes. They're quite serious about it.



Are you hiring?

You can apply for the Starfleet via the United Federation of Planets website. They always seem to need new recruits, especially those wearing red shirts!

 

[soccerdad72]

Yes, we do - we had a huge focus group assembled this year to revise parts of it and develop a long term strategy going forward.

While some of it is babble, I do truly believe in our mission.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Unfortunately yes. I don't know what it is other than some corporate psycho babble. and annoying.

 

[Scifidiner]

...….however not nearly as annoying as the "team building" seminars.

 

[Kitty 34]

Our school had one but I never felt the need to memorize it. I'm not even sure, to be honest with you, I even read the whole paragraph!

 

[soccerdad72]

Here's ours (I work at a community college)...

Mission

To provide high quality, accessible and affordable educational opportunities and services — including university transfer, technical and lifelong learning programs —that promote individual development and improve the overall quality of life in a multicultural community.

Vision

XXX will be recognized as an exemplary teaching and learning community that fosters service and student success. The College will be a valued resource and leader in academic quality, cultural enrichment, and economic development characterized by continuous improvement, innovation, and community responsiveness.

Values

To successfully fulfill the mission and vision, XXX is consciously committed to diversity, integrity, academic excellence, and achievement of individual and institutional goals. We are dedicated to building trust, respect, and confidence among our colleagues, students, and the community.

 

[Feralpeg]

Not only did the company have a mission statement. Each manager was required to write a mission statement for their department.

 

[_19disnA]

^^ Some of the places I worked for also did that. TOTAL waste of time. The top execs say what a wonderful thing these are so obviously all the lower level people just smile, nod and agree. I honestly never found anyone who ever did their job differently based on the visions/mission statement that happened to be in vogue at the time. I did laugh when we got a new boss, the old mission statement was tossed out the window and a new one had to be developed.

I agree with someone's earlier remark when a team/committee gets the assignment to write them, they end up with a bunch of buzz words, business jargon and flowerly language.

Always felt that if you need a 'values' statement that said people need to respect each other and work together, perhaps you hired the wrong people to begin with.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Yes, and yes I know it, and also, there is definitely an unspoken mission statement that goes like this:

"Work for the least amount of money you will accept, do the jobs of 3 departments while we think of the new stuff to add to your workload once we have the next round of layoffs, and don't ever forget that you will probably be next, while you strive to live and breathe and kill yourself to fulfill our "official" mission statement that doesn't even make sense"

At least I think that's what it is....I've worked about 37 hours since Tuesday. I'm a little bleary-eyed right now....

 

[tvguy]

Very common now in my industry. Mission statement, meetings and mottos. They're cheaper than hiring enough people and having enough and working equipment to do your job.
More like cheerleading camp that a work place.

 

[ronandannette]

...….however not nearly as annoying as the "team building" seminars.

Amen!!
I call them "Mandatory Fun Days". Attendance is mandatory, fun is optional.

 

[Marchand63]

Yeah our mission statement- trying to put us out of business. Yeah doesn't unfortunately not happening

 

[bcla]

...….however not nearly as annoying as the "team building" seminars.

You called them "seminars"? In all my years we never thought of them as anything other than a way to blow off steam.

Still - I've seen some doozies in my time, like when we went go-kart racing. And it was crazy too as these were high performance electric vehicles. I did one race and called it a day, but others kept on going. I witnessed one car spin out and stall, where a car behind crashed into it and literally jumped over and glanced the helmet of my coworker in the stalled car. No injuries, but I think it could have been more serious. From that point on we never chose anything that carried a serious risk of injury. We did stuff like Dave & Busters.

 

[_19disnA]

We also have team building activities in a conference room where you do various contrived activities. Watch out for those who constantly talk about being a 'team player' since on a day to day basis they are most likely the ones who go around stabbing others in the back if they think it makes them look better in the eyes of a clueless boss and will improve their chance for a promotion.

 

[Jasper07]

We’ve got a long, flowery, official one like that too. It’s our unofficial one, that can be recited instantly by any employee, that we live by:
Build it right; fix it right.

This is us too. Ours is:

Every day we make it, we'll make it the best we can.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Yes, and about five years ago it became my duty to revise and update the mission statement. We had about five or six meetings over the course of three months with people from various departments to solicit and debate ideas. A total waste of time, but eventually we came up with an appropriate happy horse crap statement that pleased the CEO.

 

[wvjules]

We have a page with information about our vision, values and strategy. I don't really see a "mission statement" though.

 

[sparkley]

I work at my church, and yes, we have a mission statement.