Work Reform

And when output and production drop 35% next quarter, you can be damn sure they'll whip out the "We're a family here!!!" talk as they announce even more layoffs to pad the bottom line.

There are ten livestock animals in captivity for every one human. You're still lucky to be born a human anywhere on earth, because we are the monsters.

"Beatings didn't work. Let's try hunger and homelessness"

Yeah, they did, but the remaining employees won't dare complain about it so management sees this as a twofer win.

Or engage with them but expect the repercussions.

I'm very candid when this shit comes around my corp and am extremely nuanced in explaining the culture challenges.

The trick is to not explicitly call anyone out and highlight it's a systemic problem.

I have always engaged with every one of them and have been negative quite often yet never anything bad came of it. Probably because we have employee rights where I live. So the actual problem is americas lacks of rights.

The stoner dudes high as balls 247 who don't give a shit and are not stressed a bit: :DDD

It seems that it's most likely an out-of-touch marketing stunt. The company, Yes Madam, is apparently launching some sort of corporate wellness program type thing so they are likely going to pivot this publicity into "Treating employees like that would be awful right?! But companies do have stressed employees and should take care of them with...blah".

I hope it fully backfires and they go out of business.

EDIT: It just hit me that they are going to say "We didn't have a single employee who indicated stress on the survey, because we take care of our employees."

It's India. Of course it's not fake.

Years ago I heard this story about a company in India that held a fire drill. Once everybody was gathered outside, they made the announcement that for about a third of them their key cards wouldn't work anymore because they were fired. My colleagues from India at the time said that sounded very real.

The only thing I could find is that Yes Madam is a real company and that the sender is indeed the HR head of that company. So if it's fake, someone kept the header and signature of a real email. Or maybe a real email sent on April 1st? I have a hard time believing that this is real (not that a company wouldn't do this, but the fact that they would admit to it so blatantly like it's not a bad thing).

I respond to all of them with brutal honestly. My most recent one was along the lines of

"A major topic of the town hall meeting was the push to get [sales number] by the end of the year. We did the same thing last year and I got a 2% raise. What is my incentive to make you money if my raises don't even match inflation?"

Even if it's anonymous, my boss knows it's me. This way I can bring it up in my review as a callback as opposed to trying to awkwardly work it in to the conversation

Recently at a company town hall, "please respond the anonymous employee satisfaction survey."

My boss a couple of weeks later, "HR says they need more surveys from our group. Please encourage your teams to fill them out."

Yeah, completely anonymous.

It was reported by several outlets as true.

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/yesmadam-fires-employees-after-stress-survey-hr-s-email-sparks-outrage-124120900791_1.html

Risky publicity stunt if that’s what it was.