The Varelas

No appreciation
That's what our department gets. The CEO sent out a company-wide e-mail today to thank some people for the success we had at a trade show this week. Now I personally didn't do anything for the show, but 3 of our department members did weeks' worth of work on it, developing custom collaterals, presentations, tabletops, etc. But because some other people in our company, whose position titles and department titles have changed to be internal (no longer Marketing!--their department is now Employee Development), have held onto the task of actually attending the trade shows because it's fun and they didn't want to give it up, they get the thanks. The CEO didn't even mention our department, let alone the 3 girls who did so much work. "THANKS again to [employee #1 who didn't do anything] and [employee #2 who didn't do anything] for handling the AHIP exhibit preparations," he writes. Grr! Yeah, folks, our department is relatively small (17 of us), but we do a lot and no one even notices?!