My senior colleagues have already been cured of depression - I can't see any leftover soul in those eyes no more
Too real
Even robots can get depressed. Just ask Marvin.
Remember to stand up at your desk at least once every two hours!
A company approved counselor will be happy to speak with you for half an hour to counsel you that you're very lucky to be employed here!
Not one, but TWO free slices of pizza this Thursday!
Now you are a happy employee, your depression is cured, and most importantly you signed the mandatory form stating the company is not liable for anything
Don't forget the ramen!
If it's mandatory, you should be getting paid for it. Don't let them get away with forcing you to attend meetings while off the clock
I have a friend who was told working past hours wasn't "mandatory", but if you didn't do it, then maybe you "weren't a good fit" because "we only want team players"
Maybe it was something like that
Possibly. If that's the case, then don't speak out until you have several coworkers on your side. At the same time as the collective action, start working as an organizing committee
In the case of my friend, it took him half a year to find that job, as he (and many of the others who work there) for various reasons aren't very "employable" (language barrier in the case of my friend), which leads to noone daring to rock the boat
Something the employer clearly know and exploits...
I would have to be really desperate for a job to work a second more than 40 hours a week. I don't even care if I would get paid more in overtime. I have a family. I'd rather see them. I hardly ever saw my parents because of how much they worked.
Unless there were no other jobs available or something, I would just agree that I wasn't a good fit if that was what was expected, but I'm going to stay in the job until you fire me and I get to collect unemployment.
The company I work for started a suicide prevention initiative a few years ago. The stated goal was to have 0 suicides in a year and they sent out a bunch of performative bullshit about how we need to listen to each other vent about our problems. As if we aren't already bitching about work to each other all the time already. I was like... How about you guys maybe think about why so many of your employees want to off themselves so bad? They have yet to meet their goal.
"Why are you killing yourselves when we had a mandatory pizza party last Friday?"
"Starting today, all suicides require a minimum of 2 weeks notice. You also need to train your replacement."
I almost left my last job without anyone trained to replace me and I was the bottleneck every order in the company went through (despite being the lowest-paid employee). Just by chance, they finally hired someone part-time to take some weight off of my shoulders a month before I went on FMLA medical leave and I ended up having to quit my job while on leave. They were very close to being very screwed because the process was complex and they had just finished with a new back end of the website that was also very complex and only I knew how to do my part.
I kind of wish I had the satisfaction of leaving them totally fucked because I hated that job.
The stated goal was to have 0 suicides in a year
Sounds lower than the bare minimum.
What? I've worked at lots of places where people don't kill themselves. I think in my entire history of employment it's only happened once.
Yeah, people being happy should be the bare minimum is what I meant. That 0 suicides is even a goal is mad.
Ah, that makes way more sense.
The dreaded lunch and learn.
They tried that shit with me, I told them I already know how to manage my burnout and it's in the form of taking a vacation or walking now about that vacation request I requested this may.
Now I didn't say it exactly like that but more or less said that I take vacations that way I don't get stressed to the point where I walk, and asked if May was a PTO block considering I had a vacation request currently pending
“Managing burnout” jesus tapdancing christ this is where we are as a society writ large
Same here except there's no hr meeting, and I'm just forcing myself to do the things that used to make me happy in my free time instead of screaming into a pillow and drinking enough booze to dissolve me into the next lifetime
My senior colleagues have already been cured of depression - I can't see any leftover soul in those eyes no more
Too real
Even robots can get depressed. Just ask Marvin.
Remember to stand up at your desk at least once every two hours!
A company approved counselor will be happy to speak with you for half an hour to counsel you that you're very lucky to be employed here!
Not one, but TWO free slices of pizza this Thursday!
Now you are a happy employee, your depression is cured, and most importantly you signed the mandatory form stating the company is not liable for anything
Don't forget the ramen!
If it's mandatory, you should be getting paid for it. Don't let them get away with forcing you to attend meetings while off the clock
I have a friend who was told working past hours wasn't "mandatory", but if you didn't do it, then maybe you "weren't a good fit" because "we only want team players"
Maybe it was something like that
Possibly. If that's the case, then don't speak out until you have several coworkers on your side. At the same time as the collective action, start working as an organizing committee
In the case of my friend, it took him half a year to find that job, as he (and many of the others who work there) for various reasons aren't very "employable" (language barrier in the case of my friend), which leads to noone daring to rock the boat
Something the employer clearly know and exploits...
I would have to be really desperate for a job to work a second more than 40 hours a week. I don't even care if I would get paid more in overtime. I have a family. I'd rather see them. I hardly ever saw my parents because of how much they worked.
Unless there were no other jobs available or something, I would just agree that I wasn't a good fit if that was what was expected, but I'm going to stay in the job until you fire me and I get to collect unemployment.
The company I work for started a suicide prevention initiative a few years ago. The stated goal was to have 0 suicides in a year and they sent out a bunch of performative bullshit about how we need to listen to each other vent about our problems. As if we aren't already bitching about work to each other all the time already. I was like... How about you guys maybe think about why so many of your employees want to off themselves so bad? They have yet to meet their goal.
"Why are you killing yourselves when we had a mandatory pizza party last Friday?"
"Starting today, all suicides require a minimum of 2 weeks notice. You also need to train your replacement."
I almost left my last job without anyone trained to replace me and I was the bottleneck every order in the company went through (despite being the lowest-paid employee). Just by chance, they finally hired someone part-time to take some weight off of my shoulders a month before I went on FMLA medical leave and I ended up having to quit my job while on leave. They were very close to being very screwed because the process was complex and they had just finished with a new back end of the website that was also very complex and only I knew how to do my part.
I kind of wish I had the satisfaction of leaving them totally fucked because I hated that job.
Sounds lower than the bare minimum.
What? I've worked at lots of places where people don't kill themselves. I think in my entire history of employment it's only happened once.
Yeah, people being happy should be the bare minimum is what I meant. That 0 suicides is even a goal is mad.
Ah, that makes way more sense.
The dreaded lunch and learn.
They tried that shit with me, I told them I already know how to manage my burnout and it's in the form of taking a vacation or walking now about that vacation request I requested this may.
Now I didn't say it exactly like that but more or less said that I take vacations that way I don't get stressed to the point where I walk, and asked if May was a PTO block considering I had a vacation request currently pending
“Managing burnout” jesus tapdancing christ this is where we are as a society writ large
Same here except there's no hr meeting, and I'm just forcing myself to do the things that used to make me happy in my free time instead of screaming into a pillow and drinking enough booze to dissolve me into the next lifetime