Imagine firing all competent employees
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this is ~~likely~~ satire/a publicity stunt by the way
edit: proof. trust your gut yall.
It was reported by several outlets as true.
Risky publicity stunt if thatβs what it was.
And you really believe that?
"Let's pretend we fire all employees that are stressed out over or horror practices, will be a great commercial!"
What that link says is that they fucked around and found out and are now making up bullshit excuses to contain the find.
The company faced significant backlash after allegedly terminating employees under stress and later clarified that the move was part of an awareness initiative.
lmao yeah right. Get fucked. "Ohh we tots didn't mean it besties"
My coworker said he was stressed out on a survey and the forced therapy. We all made fun of him for telling the truth.
Wow, that's not bullshit in the slightest. Is it legal to do this there? I mean it's technically illegal here in America but employers can always come up with a bullshit excuse. Worse, if you live in San "at will" state, they can fire you with NO reason.
Whenever I talk to an Indian about politics, the one thing they always mention is how bad corruption is in India. So I doubt that, even if it is illegal, they'll face any repercussions, so long as they've padded the pockets of the right person.
Last time I was in Bangalore there was an 80% completed, multi-story downtown building that 'didn't exist'.
It's not the laws that matter, it's who you know.
Don't ever engage with culture sensing surveys honestly. The only place they weren't a trap (ironically) was the US Army where they did it on paper, punished people for putting their names on them, and walked right past your entire immediate chain of command to their bosses with the results. And the one time things were truly bad they literally brought in a Sociology expert to study our unit and figure out how things had gone bad, it resulted in all new leadership and team building exercises, in a war zone. (These results do not extend to other branches, I had one done by the Navy and it was corpo trap bullshit, got a lot of the Army guys there by surprise.)
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.
I worked for a youuuuuuge international corporation that did a survey in the late 1990s.
They took them extremely seriously and trained and replaced the poor performing leadership.
It led to a big jump in profits.
I'm glad someone is using it correctly then.
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.
That's a very fine line though. and you're hoping they don't fire you just for being the bent nail.
Oh I agree but thing is it's principles for me. I spoke to a coworker recently about this in relation to a bad worker and if they should go to HR. My argument is I can't rely on other people to speak about the challenges so it's beholden on me to do that for those that may not want to take that risk.
It's only a job. I make damn good money but if I got let go because of my principles that's a good reason.
In our corp, our managers get the answers and results without the names of employees that gave the answers. Did not see anyone regretting being honest on the survey yet.
I am wondering more and more if it is the corp I work for that is unusual, if it is because it is in the EU, not US (even though corp is US based), or if just the people with worst experiences are the most keen to share them...
Lesson I learned the hard way: if any study comes around on your satisfaction, don't answer it. If management comes asking why you haven't answered the study, apologize, you've been swamped, you'll get get right on it, and you lie your ass off.
But they told me the survey was anonymous!
My partner took an "anonymous" survey at work once.
When the results came out, it categorised the results. Site, m/f/o, role.
Turns out that there was only one female engineer at her site... So everybody knew she was annoyed about some specific things.
Please tell me this is fake. Please?!?!!??
True story: I once worked for a startup where the head of HR kept a spreadsheet he called his "naughty and nice" list. For every employee he had a score that boiled down to "risk to the company". He would send out surveys like this and say things like "your feedback is strictly confidential", then use the responses to determine people's scores. Of course other things like any kind of complaint he overheard went into it too.
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).
There's a news article linked in another comment.
It was real, and 100 people were fired.
In response, YES Madam stated on LinkedIn, apologising for any distress caused by the campaign. The company stated that it "would never take such a step" and that the action was intended to draw attention to the critical issue of workplace stress. source
I donβt even know what you were citing, but now that the news is out let this be a lesson to not just take everything in the news for granted. All the slop outlets were just reading the same screenshot in this post verbatim and did no original reporting.
I have seen the exact same behavior here Canada with companies that are led by Indians. They treat it like a sweatshop. and this was an office.
I've been subject to the same treatment by a white person in Canada. Three out of my 5 colleagues were from India because apparently they were the only ones that could take it. They didn't fire me they made my life hell until I quit because of my mental health crisis. They made me sign bad performance reviews, the manager and her assistant shouted and screamed at me and made me work on holidays and kept accusing me of things that are not true until I quit. They did this to other people as well and no one had any grounds to sue them because they knew how to play the game. It's not just Indians that do this in Canada. Some Canadians do it too. This happen in the national capital region no less.
Yes I have been treated like shit from "white" managers as well (although i don't know what white means here).
Has this been reported? If this Is in Canada there are worker protection services....
yes it has been and these places still exist today. They especially love taking advantage of their own.
That really sucks π
Once the international students go home (hopefully) here in Canada this will not happen anymore, because Canadian's wouldn't stand for it
Probably just a front for tech support scam call center anyway.