Loyal Employee Reward Policy

(Kokomo, Indiana) Last February, we heard the news that an employee of Miller Brewing was fired for drinking a beer made by Anheuser-Busch. Apparently, drinking a competitor's beer was an intolerable level of disloyalty. Along the same lines, we now have DaimlerChrysler doing something quite similar. From the Kokomo Tribune:

Drive Ford or General Motors vehicles and walk farther.

That's the message of a new parking policy that takes effect Monday for DaimlerChrysler workers at Kokomo's Indiana Transmission Plant I and Indiana Transmission Plant II.

Blue lines now separate areas signed as "Competitor Vehicle Parking" and "DaimlerChrysler Vehicle Parking" in ITP 1's lots. A "DaimlerChrysler Parking Only" sign marks the dividing line at the ITP 2 lot.

About 80 percent of the parking spaces are designated for Chrysler vehicles only.

Parking Restricted at DaimlerChrysler
(Photo - E. Markov, Kokomo Tribune)
For those that violate the policy and park non-Chrysler vehicles in spots reserved for Chrysler vehicles, their cars will be towed at a cost of $200. Reaction to the parking policy is mixed, but it shouldn't be surprising. Companies frequently demand a sense of loyalty from their employees. And, sometimes they penalize those that don't display that loyalty and reward those that do. On a side note, I wonder if the unions will weigh in on the policy.